The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 79

Unknown to the king, or to anybody but Becasigue, he planned that, as soon as he was able, he would make his escape and pass the rest of his life alone in some solitary place.

Who acts: king, prince · What happens: plan, be, make, escape, pass · To what, where: that, prince, rest, solitary place

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, prince), 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	Unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 king	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Unknown	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 planned	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 planned	cc
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 anybody	case
8	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 planned	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 Becasigue	cc
10	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 anybody	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 anybody	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 planned	nsubj
13	planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Unknown	conj
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 planned	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 soon	advmod
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 make	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 able	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 able	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 able	cop
21	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 make	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 able	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 make	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 make	aux
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 planned	parataxis
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 make	obj
27	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 make	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pass	cc
29	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 escape	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rest	det
31	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pass	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 life	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 life	nmod:poss
34	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rest	nmod
35	alone	alone	ADV	_	29 pass	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 place	case
37	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	39 place	det
38	solitary	solitary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 place	amod
39	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pass	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Unknown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plan	past	king	that		to anybody	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic
2	is	past	king			able property	tree rules
3	make	would	king	prince		soon property	tree rules
4	escape	infinitive	prince not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pass	infinitive	prince not said here	the rest of prince's life	some solitary place	alone property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent rest=Theme in place=Destination

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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