The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 41
When the youth saw the King’s daughter, he was so dazzled by her beauty, that he forgot all idea of danger, and went to the King to announce himself a suitor.
Who acts: youth, beauty · What happens: see, dazzle, forget, go, announce · To what, where: daughter, youth, idea
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, beauty), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dazzled | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 King | case |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dazzled | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dazzled | aux:pass |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 dazzled | advmod |
| 13 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 beauty | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dazzled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 forgot | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 forgot | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 forgot | nsubj |
| 20 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dazzled | parataxis |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 idea | det |
| 22 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 forgot | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 danger | case |
| 24 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 idea | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 forgot | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 King | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 King | det |
| 30 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 announce | mark |
| 32 | announce | announce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 went | advcl |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 announce | obj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 suitor | det |
| 35 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 announce | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 dazzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the youth | the King's daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | dazzle | past · passive | daughter's beauty | youth | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | forget | past | youth | all idea of danger | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past | youth not said here | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | announce speech: other | to-infinitive | youth not said here | youth | tree rules |
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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