The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 74
As he began to saddle his horse and prepare to ride to the pillar, he could not help having some remorseful thoughts of the trick he had played and the blighted hopes of the real prince.
Who acts: Tailor, real prince · What happens: begin, saddle, prepare, ride, not help, have · To what, where: horse, pillar, remorseful thoughts, trick
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 (Tailor, real 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 began | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 help | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 saddle | mark |
| 5 | saddle | saddle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saddle | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 prepare | cc |
| 9 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 saddle | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 ride | mark |
| 11 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 prepare | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 pillar | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pillar | det |
| 14 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ride | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 help | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 help | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 help | advmod |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 help | xcomp |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 thoughts | det |
| 22 | remorseful | remorseful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 thoughts | amod |
| 23 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 having | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 trick | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 trick | det |
| 26 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thoughts | nmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 played | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 played | aux |
| 29 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 trick | acl:relcl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 hopes | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hopes | det |
| 32 | blighted | blight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 hopes | amod |
| 33 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 thoughts | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 prince | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 prince | det |
| 36 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 prince | amod |
| 37 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hopes | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Tailor | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | saddle | to-infinitive | Tailor not said here | Tailor's horse | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination | ||||
| 3 | prepare | infinitive | Tailor not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | ride not said to happen | to-infinitive | Tailor not said here | the pillar | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to pillar=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | not help | could | Tailor | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | have not said to happen | gerund | Tailor not said here | some remorseful thoughts of the trick and the blighted hopes of the real prince | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | ||||
| 7 | play | past · perfect | Tailor | the trick not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme | ||||
| 8 | blight | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | think | the trick | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 10 | hope | the real prince | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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