The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 14

But alas! all that he caught were black and ordinary, though strange to say he never grew impatient, but always seemed ready to begin the tedious hunt again.

Who acts: Prince, alas · What happens: catch, be, say, not grow, seem, begin · To what, where: alas, tedious hunt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, alas), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 alas	cc
2	alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 black	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 alas	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 caught	det:predet
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 caught	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 caught	nsubj
7	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 alas	acl:relcl
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 black	cop
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ordinary	cc
11	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 black	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 strange	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 strange	mark
14	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 black	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 strange	csubj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 grew	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 grew	advmod
19	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 say	ccomp
20	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grew	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seemed	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 seemed	cc
23	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 seemed	advmod
24	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 black	parataxis
25	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 seemed	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 begin	mark
27	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seemed	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hunt	det
29	tedious	tedious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hunt	amod
30	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 begin	obj
31	again	again	ADV	_	27 begin	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 black	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Prince	alas not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ala=Theme
2	is	past	alas			black property	tree rules
3	be		alas not said here				tree rules
4	be		alas not said here				tree rules
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not grow	past	Prince			impatient property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	seem	past				always, ready property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
8	begin	to-infinitive		the tedious hunt	again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Eventuality

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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