The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 1

He walked on for some distance, and then he recollected the ring and thought he would try if the princess had spoken truly as to its powers.

Who acts: He · What happens: walk on, recollect, think, try, speak · To what, where: ring, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 walked	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 distance	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 distance	det
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 recollected	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 recollected	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 recollected	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 recollected	nsubj
11	recollected	recollect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ring	det
13	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 recollected	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thought	cc
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 recollected	conj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 try	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 try	aux
18	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	ccomp
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 spoken	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 princess	det
21	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spoken	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 spoken	aux
23	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 try	advcl
24	truly	truly	ADV	_	23 spoken	advmod
25	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	28 powers	case
26	to	to	ADP	_	25 as	fixed
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 powers	nmod:poss
28	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 spoken	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	walk on	past	He			for some distance	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	recollect	past	he	the ring	then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	he not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	try	would	he				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the princess		as ring's powers; truly property	tree rules

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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