The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 15
Then the youth congratulated himself on the bargain he had made, and continued his journey in the best of spirits.
Who acts: youth · What happens: congratulate, make, continue, journey · To what, where: youth, bargain, journey, best
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 congratulated | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 congratulated | nsubj |
| 4 | congratulated | congratulate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 congratulated | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bargain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bargain | det |
| 8 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 congratulated | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 bargain | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 continued | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 continued | cc |
| 14 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 congratulated | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 journey | nmod:poss |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 continued | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 best | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 best | det |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 continued | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 spirits | case |
| 21 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 best | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 congratulated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | congratulate | past | the youth | youth | the bargain | then | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||
| 2 | make | past · perfect | youth | the bargain not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product | ||||
| 3 | continue | past | youth's journey | the best of spirits | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 4 | journey | youth | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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