The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 142

This amazing occurrence plunged the whole court into the deepest affliction, and Prince Mirliflor, after giving way to the most violent grief at first, fell gradually into a state of such deep dejection that it was feared if nothing could rouse him he would certainly die.

Who acts: amazing occurrence, Mirliflor, nothing · What happens: plunge, give, fall, fear, rouse, die · To what, where: whole court, deepest affliction, way, violent grief, state, occurrence

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (amazing occurrence, Mirliflor, nothing), 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 occurrence	det
2	amazing	amazing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 occurrence	amod
3	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plunged	nsubj
4	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 court	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 court	amod
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plunged	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 affliction	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 affliction	det
10	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 affliction	amod
11	affliction	affliction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plunged	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 giving	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 giving	cc
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Mirliflor	nmod:desc
15	Mirliflor	Mirliflor	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 giving	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 giving	punct
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	18 giving	mark
18	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 plunged	advcl
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 giving	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	24 grief	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 grief	det
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 violent	advmod
23	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grief	amod
24	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 giving	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 first	case
26	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 giving	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fell	punct
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 plunged	conj
29	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	28 fell	advmod
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 state	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 state	det
32	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 dejection	case
34	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dejection	amod
35	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dejection	amod
36	dejection	dejection	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 state	nmod
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 feared	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 feared	nsubj:pass
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 feared	aux:pass
40	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 fell	advcl
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 rouse	mark
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	44 rouse	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 rouse	aux
44	rouse	rouse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 feared	advcl
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 rouse	obj
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 die	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 die	aux
48	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	49 die	advmod
49	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 rouse	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 plunged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	plunge	past	this amazing occurrence	the whole court		the deepest affliction		vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location court=Theme
2	give	gerund	Mirliflor Prince	way	the violent grief			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent way=Theme to grief=Recipient at first=Asset
3	fall	past	this amazing occurrence not said here				into a state of such deep dejection result; gradually property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into state=Result
4	fear	past · passive		occurrence				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	rouse a condition, not said to happen	could	nothing	Mirliflor				vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	die	would	Mirliflor				certainly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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