The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 51

However, he soon remembered that though it was very unlikely that he should find the ring in the brook, it was impossible that he should find it by staying in the palace.

Who acts: king · What happens: remember, be, find, stay · To what, where: ring, brook, palace

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 (king), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 remembered	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 remembered	nsubj
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 remembered	advmod
5	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 unlikely	mark
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 unlikely	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 unlikely	expl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 unlikely	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 unlikely	advmod
11	unlikely	unlikely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 remembered	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 find	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 find	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 unlikely	csubj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ring	det
17	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 brook	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 brook	det
20	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ring	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 impossible	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 impossible	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 impossible	cop
24	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 remembered	parataxis
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 find	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 find	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 find	aux
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 impossible	csubj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 find	obj
30	by	by	SCONJ	_	31 staying	mark
31	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 find	advcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 palace	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 palace	det
34	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 staying	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remember	past	king			however, soon property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	past				unlikely property	tree rules
3	find	should	king	the ring	the brook		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic
4	is	past				impossible property	tree rules
5	find	should	king	ring			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
6	stay	gerund	king not said here		the palace		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/21/51/