The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 8

After many had met their death thus, there came a young man, beautiful to behold, and as clever as he was beautiful, who had a great desire to attempt the enterprise.

Who acts: many, young man, eldest, men · What happens: meet, come, be, have, attempt, die · To what, where: death, great desire, enterprise

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, young man, eldest, men), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 met	mark
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 met	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	aux
4	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 came	advcl
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 death	nmod:poss
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obj
7	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 met	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 met	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 came	expl
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beautiful	punct
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 behold	case
17	behold	behold	INTJ	_	15 beautiful	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 clever	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 clever	cc
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 clever	advmod
21	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 came	conj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 beautiful	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 beautiful	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 beautiful	cop
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 clever	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 beautiful	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 desire	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 desire	amod
31	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 attempt	mark
33	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 enterprise	det
35	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 attempt	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past · perfect	many	men's death		thus property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent
2	come	past	a young man		there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	eldest = eld			beautiful property	tree rules
4	have	past		a great desire			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient
5	attempt	to-infinitive		the enterprise			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enterprise=Eventuality
6	die		men = man				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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