The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 120

'He shan't have such a chance again,' thought he; and the next morning he insisted on plunging into a thick forest where they were likely to meet nobody.

Who acts: brother, bits · What happens: not have, think, insist, plunge, be, meet · To what, where: chance, brother, thick forest, nobody

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, bits), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
3	sha	sha	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 chance	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chance	det
8	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
9	again	again	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 insisted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 insisted	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 morning	det
17	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 morning	amod
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 insisted	obl:unmarked
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 insisted	nsubj
20	insisted	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	conj
21	on	on	SCONJ	_	22 plunging	mark
22	plunging	plunge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 insisted	advcl
23	into	into	ADP	_	26 forest	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 forest	det
25	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 forest	amod
26	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 plunging	obl
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 likely	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 likely	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 likely	cop
30	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 forest	acl:relcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 meet	mark
32	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 likely	xcomp
33	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 meet	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have		brother	such chance		again		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
2	think speech: other	past	brother not said here	brother				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	insist speech: other	past	brother			morning		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	plunge	gerund	brother not said here		a thick forest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
5	is	past	bits = bit				likely property	tree rules
6	meet	to-infinitive	bits = bit not said here	nobody				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Co-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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