The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 8
The young man listened in dismay to these words, but with an effort he thanked the emperor for his kindness and left the palace, wondering how he was to fulfil the task allotted to him.
Who acts: young man, man · What happens: listen, thank, leave, wonder, be, allot · To what, where: young man, emperor, palace, task, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. 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, 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 | 16 thanked | nsubj |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 dismay | case |
| 6 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 words | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 words | det |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 listened | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thanked | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 thanked | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 effort | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 effort | det |
| 14 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thanked | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thanked | nsubj |
| 16 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 emperor | det |
| 18 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thanked | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 kindness | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 21 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thanked | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 left | cc |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thanked | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 palace | det |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 left | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wondering | punct |
| 27 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 left | advcl |
| 28 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 fulfil | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fulfil | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 fulfil | cop |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 fulfil | mark |
| 32 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wondering | ccomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 task | det |
| 34 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fulfil | obj |
| 35 | allotted | allot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 task | acl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 allotted | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | participle | the young man not said here | to this words; in dismay | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in dismay=Theme | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | the young man | the emperor | with a effort; for man's kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme for kindness=Attribute | |||
| 3 | leave | past | the young man not said here | the palace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | the young man not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is | past | man | fulfil property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | allot | participle | the task not said here | man | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to he=Goal |
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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