The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 40

He passed many hours inventing first one plan and then another, till he had a scheme ready which he thought might prove successful.

Who acts: Pinkel · What happens: pass, invent, have, think, prove · To what, where: one plan, scheme

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pinkel), 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 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hours	amod
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	obj
5	inventing	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 passed	advcl
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 one	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 plan	nummod
8	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 inventing	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 another	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 another	advmod
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 passed	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 scheme	det
17	scheme	scheme	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 had	xcomp
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 thought	nsubj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ready	parataxis
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 prove	aux
23	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thought	xcomp
24	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 prove	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	Pinkel		hour		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	invent	gerund	Pinkel not said here	one plan			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result
3	have	past	Pinkel	a scheme		ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scheme=Patient
4	think speech: other	past					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	prove	might				successful property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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 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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