The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 67
However, the thought that he must certainly have been born to be a king supported him, and he bravely rode on.
Who acts: thought, heart · What happens: bear, be, support, ride on · To what, where: thought, king, heart
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 (thought, heart), 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 | _ | 16 supported | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thought | det |
| 4 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 supported | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 born | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 born | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 born | aux |
| 8 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 11 born | advmod |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 born | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 born | aux:pass |
| 11 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thought | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 king | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 king | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 born | advcl |
| 16 | supported | support | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 supported | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rode | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rode | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 rode | nsubj |
| 21 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 22 rode | advmod |
| 22 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 supported | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 rode | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 supported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | must · perfect · passive | the thought not said here | thought | certainly property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the thought not said here | a king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | support | past | the thought | heart | however property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | ride on | past | heart | bravely property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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