The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 66

Now the miles seemed to slip by, for the new comer was so lively and entertaining that the king’s son could not help hoping that he indeed might prove to be the true friend.

Who acts: miles, new comer, son · What happens: seem, slip by, be, entertain, not help, hope · To what, where: true friend

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miles, new comer, son), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 seemed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 miles	det
3	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 slip	mark
6	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seemed	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	6 slip	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lively	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 lively	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 comer	det
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 comer	amod
12	comer	comer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lively	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lively	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 lively	advmod
15	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seemed	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 entertaining	cc
17	entertaining	entertain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 lively	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 help	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 son	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 king	case
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 help	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 help	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 help	advmod
25	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 entertaining	advcl
26	hoping	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 help	xcomp
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 prove	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 prove	nsubj
29	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	31 prove	advmod
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 prove	aux
31	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 hoping	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	36 friend	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 friend	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 friend	det
35	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 friend	amod
36	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 prove	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the miles		now		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	slip by	to-infinitive	the miles not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	past	the new comer			lively property	tree rules
4	entertain	gerund	the new comer not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	not help	could	the king's son				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	hope not said to happen	gerund	the king's son not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	prove	might	son			indeed property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
8	is a	to-infinitive	son not said here	the true friend			tree rules

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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