The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 93

The prince began to think what he should say to the king when he came back; then he wondered whether it would be wise to wait for his stepfather’s return and run the risk of the dreadful death which had been promised him.

Who acts: prince, stepfather · What happens: begin, think, say, come back, wonder, be · To what, where: king, risk, dreadful death, prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, stepfather), 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	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 think	mark
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 say	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 think	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 king	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 came	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 say	advcl
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 wondered	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 wondered	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wondered	nsubj
20	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	25 wise	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wise	expl
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 wise	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 wise	cop
25	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wondered	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 wait	mark
27	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wise	csubj
28	for	for	ADP	_	32 return	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 stepfather	nmod:poss
30	stepfather	stepfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 return	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 stepfather	case
32	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wait	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 run	cc
34	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wait	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 risk	det
36	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 run	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 death	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 death	det
39	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 death	amod
40	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 risk	nmod
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 promised	nsubj:pass
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 promised	aux
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 promised	aux:pass
44	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 death	acl:relcl
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 promised	iobj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the prince					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the prince not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	say speech: assert	should	prince		the king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to king=Recipient
4	come back	past	prince					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wonder speech: ask	past	prince			then		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	would					wise property	tree rules
7	wait	to-infinitive					for prince's stepfather's return	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	run	infinitive		the risk of the dreadful death				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme risk=Trajectory
9	promise speech: promise	past · perfect · passive		the dreadful death	prince			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal he=Theme
10	return		prince's stepfather					nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
11	risk			the dreadful death				nom risk «state transitive»: of=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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