The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 86

This time he would not need to hide in the ship’s hold, but could hire the best cabin if he wished to, or even have a vessel all to himself.

Who acts: Tiidu, time · What happens: not need, hide, hire, wish, have, hold · To what, where: time, hold, best cabin, vessel, Tiidu, ship

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, time), 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	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hire	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 need	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 need	advmod
6	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 time	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hide	mark
8	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 need	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 hold	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ship	det
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hold	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 ship	case
13	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hide	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hire	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 hire	cc
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hire	aux
17	hire	hire	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cabin	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 cabin	amod
20	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hire	obj
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 wished	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wished	nsubj
23	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hire	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	23 wished	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
27	even	even	ADV	_	28 have	advmod
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 hire	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 vessel	det
30	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
31	all	all	ADV	_	33 himself	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 himself	case
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 have	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 hire	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	not need	would	Tiidu	this time not said here				tree rules
2	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive	this time not said here			the ship's hold		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hold=Location
3	hire	could		the best cabin			time	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabin=Theme
4	wish a condition, not said to happen	past	Tiidu					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	have	infinitive		a vessel	Tiidu			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient
6	hold			the ship				nom hold «act transitive»: poss=patient

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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