The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 101

He understood something of the danger that there might be in trying to steal it, now that the witch's suspicions were aroused, and he spent hours in making plans for outwitting her.

Who acts: king, danger, witch · What happens: understand, be, steal, arouse, spend, make · To what, where: something, danger, suspicions, plans, witch

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, danger, witch), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 understood	nsubj
2	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 understood	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 danger	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 danger	det
6	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 something	nmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 trying	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 trying	expl
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 trying	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 trying	cop
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 trying	mark
12	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 danger	acl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 steal	mark
14	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 trying	xcomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 steal	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 aroused	punct
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 aroused	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 aroused	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 witch	det
20	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 suspicions	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 witch	case
22	suspicions	suspicion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 aroused	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 aroused	aux:pass
24	aroused	arouse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 steal	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 spent	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 spent	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 spent	nsubj
28	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 understood	conj
29	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 spent	obj
30	in	in	SCONJ	_	31 making	mark
31	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 spent	advcl
32	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 making	obj
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 outwitting	mark
34	outwitting	outwit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 making	advcl
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 outwitting	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past	king	something				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
2	is	might	the danger not said here		there		try property	tree rules
3	steal not said to happen	to-infinitive	the danger not said here	danger				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	arouse	past · passive		the witch's suspicions		now		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	spend	past	king			hour		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	make	gerund	king not said here	plans				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plan=Product
7	outwit	gerund	king not said here	witch				vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
8	suspect		the witch					nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: poss=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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