The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 190
As he listened to this story, the young man was filled with a great longing to rescue the maiden from her dreadful fate.
Who acts: man, girl · What happens: listen, fill, rescue, fate · To what, where: young man, maiden, dreadful fate
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, girl), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 listened | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 story | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 filled | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 filled | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 filled | aux:pass |
| 12 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 listened | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 longing | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 longing | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 longing | amod |
| 16 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 filled | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 rescue | mark |
| 18 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 filled | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 maiden | det |
| 20 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rescue | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 fate | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fate | nmod:poss |
| 23 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fate | amod |
| 24 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rescue | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | man | to this story | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | the young man | with a great longing | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with longing=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | rescue | to-infinitive | the maiden | girl's dreadful fate | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme from fate=Source | ||||
| 4 | fate | girl | nom fate «event transitive»: 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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