The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 20
The youth was very impatient to try the ring, and returned home immediately.
Who acts: youth · What happens: be, try, return · To what, where: ring
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | 5 impatient | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 impatient | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 impatient | advmod |
| 5 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 try | mark |
| 7 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 impatient | csubj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ring | det |
| 9 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 try | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 returned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 returned | cc |
| 12 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 impatient | parataxis |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 returned | advmod |
| 14 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 12 returned | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 impatient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the youth | impatient property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | the ring | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | return | past | home, immediately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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