The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 38
He did not feel very elated at this announcement, for he did not know how in the world he was to set about the task, and he started on his way weeping bitterly, and wondering what had made him leave his father’s house and kingdom.
Who acts: horse, way · What happens: not feel, elate, not know, be, start, weep · To what, where: announcement, world, way, horse, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, way), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 feel | advmod |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 elated | advmod |
| 6 | elated | elate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 feel | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 announcement | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 announcement | det |
| 9 | announcement | announcement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 elated | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 feel | conj |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 set | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 set | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 set | cop |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 set | mark |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 know | ccomp |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 task | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 task | det |
| 26 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 started | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 started | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 started | nsubj |
| 30 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 way | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 way | nmod:poss |
| 33 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 started | obl |
| 34 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 way | acl |
| 35 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 34 weeping | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 made | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 made | cc |
| 38 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 made | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 41 made | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 made | aux |
| 41 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 feel | parataxis |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 made | obj |
| 43 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 made | xcomp |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 father | nmod:poss |
| 45 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 house | nmod:poss |
| 46 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 45 father | case |
| 47 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 leave | obj |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 kingdom | cc |
| 49 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 house | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | past · do-support | horse | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | elate | participle | horse not said here | this announcement | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | past | horse | the world | about the task; set property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | start | past | horse | horse's way | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | weep | gerund | horse's way not said here | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 8 | make | past · perfect · passive | horse | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | leave | infinitive | horse not said here | horse's father's house and kingdom | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
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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