The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 28

The prince was much disappointed, but he never dreamed of disobeying his father, and he began to think with all his might what he could do.

Who acts: prince, father · What happens: be, not dream, disobey, begin, think, do · To what, where: father

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, father), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 disappointed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 disappointed	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 disappointed	advmod
5	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dreamed	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 dreamed	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dreamed	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 dreamed	advmod
10	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 disappointed	parataxis
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 disobeying	mark
12	disobeying	disobey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 dreamed	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 disobeying	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 disappointed	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 think	mark
20	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	with	with	SCONJ	_	24 might	mark
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 might	det:predet
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 might	nmod:poss
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 think	ccomp
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 do	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 might	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 disappointed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the prince		disappointed property	tree rules
2	not dream	past	Prince			vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	disobey	gerund	Prince not said here	Prince's father		tree rules
4	begin	past	father			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	father not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	do	could	father			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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