The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 13
This curious vow had up to this time frightened away all suitors, but the young man was so captivated by her beauty, that he hesitated at nothing and asked her hand of her father.
Who acts: curious vow, time, beauty, man · What happens: have up, frighten away, captivate, hesitate, ask · To what, where: suitors, young man, nothing, hand
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curious vow, time, beauty, man), 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 | 3 vow | det |
| 2 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vow | amod |
| 3 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 had | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 9 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 time | acl |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 frightened | advmod |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 suitors | det |
| 12 | suitors | suitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 frightened | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 captivated | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 captivated | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 captivated | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 captivated | aux:pass |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 captivated | advmod |
| 20 | captivated | captivate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 had | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 beauty | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 23 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 captivated | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hesitated | punct |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 hesitated | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 hesitated | nsubj |
| 27 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 captivated | parataxis |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 nothing | case |
| 29 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 27 hesitated | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 asked | cc |
| 31 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 hesitated | conj |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hand | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 asked | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 father | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 father | nmod:poss |
| 36 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hand | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have up | past | this curious vow | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | frighten away | participle | this time not said here | all suitors | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus suitor=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | captivate | past · passive | vow's beauty | the young man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | hesitate | past | man | nothing | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at nothing=Location | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | man not said here | vow's hand of vow's father | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Recipient |
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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