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The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 32

Nine suitors had already lost their lives when the King’s son arrived, and, dazzled by her beauty, determined to risk his life in hopes of winning her.

Who acts: son, hopes · What happens: lose, arrive, dazzle, determine, risk, win · To what, where: Nine suitors, life, hopes, Princess

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, hopes), 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

nummodnsubj:passauxadvmodadvclnmod:possobjadvmoddetnmod:posscasensubjpunctccpunctconjcasenmod:possoblpunctconjmarkxcompnmod:possobjcaseoblmarkaclobjpunctrootNineNUMsuitorsNOUNhadAUXalreadyADVlostVERBtheirPRONlivesNOUNwhenADVtheDETKingPROPN’sPARTsonNOUNarrivedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTdazzledVERBbyADPherPRONbeautyNOUN,PUNCTdeterminedVERBtoPARTriskVERBhisPRONlifeNOUNinADPhopesNOUNofSCONJwinningVERBherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NinenineNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card2 suitorsnummod
2suitorssuitorNOUNNumber=Plur5 lostnsubj:pass
3hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 lostaux
4alreadyalreadyADV_5 lostadvmod
5lostloseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass13 arrivedadvcl
6theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 livesnmod:poss
7liveslifeNOUNNumber=Plur5 lostobj
8whenwhenADVPronType=Int13 arrivedadvmod
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Kingdet
10KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing12 sonnmod:poss
11’s'sPART_10 Kingcase
12sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing13 arrivednsubj
13arrivedarriveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
14,,PUNCT_17 dazzledpunct
15andandCCONJ_17 dazzledcc
16,,PUNCT_17 dazzledpunct
17dazzleddazzleVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass13 arrivedconj
18bybyADP_20 beautycase
19herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 beautynmod:poss
20beautybeautyNOUNNumber=Sing17 dazzledobl
21,,PUNCT_22 determinedpunct
22determineddetermineVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass17 dazzledconj
23totoPART_24 riskmark
24riskriskVERBVerbForm=Inf22 determinedxcomp
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 lifenmod:poss
26lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing24 riskobj
27ininADP_28 hopescase
28hopeshopeNOUNNumber=Plur24 riskobl
29ofofSCONJ_30 winningmark
30winningwinVERBVerbForm=Ger28 hopesacl
31hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 winningobj
32..PUNCT_13 arrivedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1losepast · perfect · passiveNine suitorstree rules
2arrivepastthe King's sonvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3dazzleparticiplethe King's son not said hereby Princess's beautyvn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4determineparticiplethe King's son not said herevn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5riskto-infinitivethe King's son not said hereson's lifehopesvn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Pivot
6wingerundhopes not said herePrincessvn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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