The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 66

Everything was new to Hans, and though he was rather bewildered he enjoyed himself very much, especially when the man with the golden crown began to tell him many things he had never heard of before.

Who acts: Everything, Hans, man · What happens: be, bewilder, enjoy, begin, tell, not hear · To what, where: Hans, many things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, Hans, 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 new	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 new	cop
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Hans	case
5	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 new	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 enjoyed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 enjoyed	cc
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 bewildered	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bewildered	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bewildered	aux:pass
11	rather	rather	ADV	_	12 bewildered	advmod
12	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 enjoyed	advcl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 enjoyed	nsubj
14	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 new	conj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 enjoyed	obj
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	14 enjoyed	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 began	punct
19	especially	especially	ADV	_	27 began	advmod
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 began	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 began	nsubj
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 crown	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 crown	det
25	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 crown	amod
26	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 man	nmod
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 new	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 tell	mark
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 began	xcomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tell	iobj
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 things	amod
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tell	obj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 heard	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 heard	aux
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 heard	advmod
36	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 things	acl:relcl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 before	case
38	before	before	ADV	_	36 heard	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 new	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Everything		Hans	new property	tree rules
2	bewilder	past · passive		Hans			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	enjoy	past	Hans	Hans			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus
4	begin	past	the man with the golden crown			especially property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the man with the golden crown not said here	many things	Hans		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thing=Topic
6	not hear	past · perfect	Hans	many things not said here		before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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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