The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 94
He could not hope to be more than king, and as long as he had his cornet to provide him with soldiers he was secure against his enemies.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: not hope, be, have, provide · To what, where: Jack, soldiers
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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 | 4 hope | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hope | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hope | advmod |
| 4 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 more | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 more | cop |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 hope | obj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 more | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 long | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 long | cc |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 hope | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 long | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 cornet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | cornet | cornet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 long | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 provide | mark |
| 20 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hope | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 provide | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 soldiers | case |
| 23 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 provide | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 secure | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 secure | cop |
| 26 | secure | secure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 soldiers | acl:relcl |
| 27 | against | against | ADP | _ | 29 enemies | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 29 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 secure | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hope | could | Jack | long property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | than king; more property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Jack | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | provide | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | Jack | with soldiers | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with soldier=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | past | Jack | soldiers not said here | against Jack's enemies; secure property | 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 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/20/94/