The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 89
The young man wondered at this strange freak, and went laughing in search of the maiden.
Who acts: young man · What happens: wonder, go, laugh, search · To what, where: strange freak, maiden
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wondered | nsubj |
| 4 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 freak | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 freak | det |
| 7 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 freak | amod |
| 8 | freak | freak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wondered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wondered | conj |
| 12 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 went | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 search | case |
| 14 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laughing | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 maiden | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 maiden | det |
| 17 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 search | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | the young man | this strange freak | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the young man not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | the young man not said here | in search of the maiden | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in search=Theme | ||||
| 4 | search | the maiden | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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