The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 34

The young man did not know what he was to do when he was in the boat or where he was to go, but as the dove had come to his rescue before, he was ready to obey her blindly.

Who acts: young man, man · What happens: not know, be, come, obey, rescue · To what, where: boat, rescue, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	6 know	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 know	advmod
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 do	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 do	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 know	ccomp
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 boat	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 boat	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 boat	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 boat	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boat	det
17	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	obl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 go	cc
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 go	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 go	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 go	cop
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 boat	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 come	cc
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 dove	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dove	det
28	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 come	obl
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
30	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 know	ccomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 rescue	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 rescue	nmod:poss
33	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 come	obl
34	before	before	ADV	_	30 come	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ready	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 ready	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 ready	cop
38	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 come	advcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 obey	mark
40	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 ready	xcomp
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 obey	obj
42	blindly	blindly	ADV	_	40 obey	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	the young man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	is	past	man			do property	tree rules
3	is	past	man		the boat		tree rules
4	is	past	man			go property	tree rules
5	come	past · perfect			man's rescue	as the dove; before property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Initial_Location
6	is	past	man			ready property	tree rules
7	obey	to-infinitive	man not said here	daughter		blindly property	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
8	rescue		man				nom rescue «act 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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