The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 28

The prince hardly knew where to begin, and indeed if he had had a thousand people to help him, and a week to do it in, he could never have finished his task.

Who acts: prince · What happens: know, begin, have, help, do in, not finish · To what, where: thousand people, prince, boast, task · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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	4 knew	nsubj
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 knew	advmod
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 begin	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 begin	mark
7	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	14 had	advmod
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 had	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	aux
14	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 knew	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 thousand	det
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 people	nummod
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 help	mark
19	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 help	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 do	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 do	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 week	det
24	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 do	obl:unmarked
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 do	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	26 do	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 finished	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 finished	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 finished	aux
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 finished	advmod
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 finished	aux
34	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 do	advcl
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 task	nmod:poss
36	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 finished	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	the prince				hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	begin	to-infinitive						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	prince	thousand people			indeed property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
4	help	to-infinitive	prince not said here		prince			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
5	do in	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	boast		week		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	not finish	could · perfect	prince	prince's task				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector task=Eventuality
7	task		prince					nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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