The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 5

All the way across the lake he thought and thought, till at length a plan came into his head which seemed as if it might do, though he knew it would be very difficult to carry out.

Who acts: goat, plan, head · What happens: think, come, seem, do, know, be · To what, where: way, length · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (goat, plan, head), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 way	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thought	obl
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 lake	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lake	det
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 way	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 came	mark
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 length	case
14	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 plan	det
16	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	ccomp
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 head	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 seemed	nsubj
22	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 head	acl:relcl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 do	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 do	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 do	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 seemed	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 knew	punct
29	though	though	SCONJ	_	31 knew	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 knew	nsubj
31	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 do	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 difficult	expl
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 difficult	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 difficult	cop
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 difficult	advmod
36	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 knew	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 carry	mark
38	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 difficult	xcomp
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 carry	compound:prt
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	goat	all way across the lake			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	goat not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	come	past	a plan		length	into goat's head	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial_Location
4	seem	past	goat's head				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	do a condition, not said to happen	might	plan				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	know	past	goat				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	would				difficult property	tree rules
8	carry out	to-infinitive					vn act-114 «NP V NP»: 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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