The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 28

This sight revived his drooping spirits, and he made sure that he was now close to the shelter and supper he needed so much, but the more he walked towards the light the further away it seemed; sometimes he even lost sight of it altogether, and you may imagine how provoked and impatient he was by the time he finally arrived at the miserable cottage from which the light proceeded.

Who acts: sight, Prince, it, you, light · What happens: revive, droop, make, be, need, walk · To what, where: drooping spirits, shelter, light, sight, time, miserable cottage

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, Prince, it, you), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 sight	det
2	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 revived	nsubj
3	revived	revive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 spirits	nmod:poss
5	drooping	droop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 spirits	amod
6	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 revived	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 revived	conj
11	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 made	xcomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 close	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 close	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 close	cop
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 close	advmod
16	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 made	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 shelter	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shelter	det
19	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 close	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 supper	cc
21	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shelter	conj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 needed	nsubj
23	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 shelter	acl:relcl
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADV	_	23 needed	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 walked	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 walked	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 more	det
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 walked	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 walked	nsubj
31	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 revived	conj
32	towards	towards	ADP	_	34 light	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 light	det
34	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 walked	obl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 further	det
36	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 seemed	advmod
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 further	advmod
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 seemed	nsubj
39	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 walked	advcl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 lost	punct
41	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	44 lost	advmod
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 lost	nsubj
43	even	even	ADV	_	44 lost	advmod
44	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 revived	parataxis
45	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lost	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 it	case
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 sight	nmod
48	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	44 lost	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 imagine	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 imagine	cc
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 imagine	nsubj
52	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 imagine	aux
53	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 lost	conj
54	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	55 provoked	advmod
55	provoked	provoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	62 time	advcl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 impatient	cc
57	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 provoked	conj
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 time	nsubj
59	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 time	cop
60	by	by	ADP	_	62 time	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 time	det
62	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 imagine	ccomp
63	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 arrived	nsubj
64	finally	finally	ADV	_	65 arrived	advmod
65	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 time	acl:relcl
66	at	at	ADP	_	69 cottage	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 cottage	det
68	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 cottage	amod
69	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 arrived	obl
70	from	from	ADP	_	71 which	case
71	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	74 proceeded	obl
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 light	det
73	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 proceeded	nsubj
74	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	69 cottage	acl:relcl
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 revived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	revive	past	this sight	Prince's drooping spirits				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient
2	droop	gerund						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	past	Prince				sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Prince			now	to the shelter and supper; close property	tree rules
5	need	past	Prince	the shelter and supper not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shelter=Theme
6	walk	past	Prince		the light			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards light=Destination
7	seem	past	it				far property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
8	lose	past	Prince	sight of light			altogether, sometimes property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality
9	imagine	may	you					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
10	provoke	participle	Prince not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
11	is	past	Prince			by the time		tree rules
12	arrive	past	Prince	the time not said here	the miserable cottage		finally property	tree rules
13	proceed	past	the light		the miserable cottage			vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
14	sight			light				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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