The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 64

His delight knew no bounds, and he followed her eagerly up into the castle, impatient to know what strange events had brought her there.

Who acts: delight, strange events, Prince · What happens: know, follow, bring, delight · To what, where: bounds, water, castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (delight, strange events, Prince), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 delight	nmod:poss
2	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 bounds	det
5	bounds	bound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 knew	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 followed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 followed	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 followed	nsubj
9	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 followed	obj
11	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	12 up	advmod
12	up	up	ADV	_	9 followed	advmod
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 castle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 castle	det
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 followed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 impatient	punct
17	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 castle	amod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 know	mark
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 impatient	advcl
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 brought	obj
21	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 events	amod
22	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 brought	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 brought	aux
24	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 know	ccomp
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 brought	obj
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 brought	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	know	past	Prince's delight	no bounds			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus
2	follow	past	delight	water		the castle	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme into castle=Trajectory
3	know	to-infinitive	delight not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	bring	past · perfect	strange events		water	there	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme she=Destination
5	delight		Prince				nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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 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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