The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 3
The youth was overjoyed at the thought that he was really going to see the world, and after tenderly embracing his father he set forth.
Who acts: king · What happens: overjoy, go, see, embrace, set · To what, where: youth, thought, world, father
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overjoyed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 4 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 thought | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thought | det |
| 7 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overjoyed | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 going | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 going | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 going | advmod |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 thought | acl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 going | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tenderly | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tenderly | cc |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 tenderly | case |
| 20 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 overjoyed | conj |
| 21 | embracing | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 tenderly | csubj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 embracing | obj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 set | nsubj |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 father | acl:relcl |
| 26 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 25 set | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | past · passive | the youth | the thought | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | king | the thought not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | king not said here | the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | embrace | gerund | king's father | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Co-Agent | |||||
| 5 | set | past | king | king's father not said here | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient father=Result |
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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