The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 56
At the same time, he felt sure that had he been in the prince’s place any royal father might have been glad to own him.
Who acts: friend, that, royal father · What happens: feel, have, be, own · To what, where: place, friend
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, that, royal father), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 felt | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 felt | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 place | nsubj |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 place | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 place | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 prince | case |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 father | det |
| 19 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 father | amod |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 glad | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 glad | aux |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 glad | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 glad | cop |
| 24 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 place | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 own | mark |
| 26 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 glad | xcomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 own | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | friend | time | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | have | past | that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | participle | friend | the prince's place | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | might · perfect | any royal father | the prince's place not said here | glad property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | own | to-infinitive | any royal father not said here | friend | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
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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