The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 8

The Prince was so overwhelmed with grief that he could think of nothing but his father, and exclaimed: ‘Yes, yes, dear father, whatever you desire shall be done.’

Who acts: Prince, you · What happens: overwhelm, think, exclaim, desire, do · To what, where: Prince, dear father

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 overwhelmed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 overwhelmed	aux:pass
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 overwhelmed	advmod
5	overwhelmed	overwhelm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 grief	case
7	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overwhelmed	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 think	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 think	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 think	aux
11	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 overwhelmed	advcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 nothing	case
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 think	obl
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 father	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nothing	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 exclaimed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 exclaimed	cc
19	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 overwhelmed	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 exclaimed	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 father	punct
22	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	27 father	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Yes	punct
24	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	27 father	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 father	punct
26	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 father	amod
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 done	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 whatever	punct
29	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 father	appos
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 desire	nsubj
31	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 whatever	acl:relcl
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 done	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 done	aux:pass
34	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 exclaimed	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 overwhelmed	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 overwhelmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	overwhelm	past · passive		the Prince	with grief	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	think speech: other	could	Prince		of nothing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	exclaim speech: express	past				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	desire	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	do	shall · passive		dear father		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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