The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 7

Still, the prince was no fool, and wondered if indeed he was as dead as he seemed to be; but the captain lay so stiff and stark, that at last he was taken in.

Who acts: prince, fool, stroke, captain · What happens: be, wonder, seem, lie, take in · To what, where: fool, that, last, stroke

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, fool, stroke, captain), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	4 prince	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fool	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fool	cop
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 fool	det
7	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wondered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wondered	cc
10	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fool	acl:relcl
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 dead	mark
12	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	16 dead	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dead	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dead	cop
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 dead	advmod
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wondered	advcl
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 seemed	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seemed	nsubj
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dead	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 be	mark
21	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 seemed	xcomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 lay	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 lay	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 captain	det
25	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lay	nsubj
26	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fool	parataxis
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 stiff	advmod
28	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lay	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stark	cc
30	stark	stark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stiff	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 that	punct
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 lay	obl
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 last	case
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lay	obl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 taken	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 taken	aux:pass
37	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 lay	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	37 taken	compound:prt
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fool	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the prince	no fool			tree rules
2	wonder speech: ask	past	no fool not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	stroke			dead, indeed property	tree rules
4	seem	past	stroke				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	be	to-infinitive	stroke not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	lie	past	the captain	that	last	stiff property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location
7	take in	past · passive		stroke			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination

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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