The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 60
She decided that the last plan was the best; and so it would have been if the prince had not taken the very same direction in search of her.
Who acts: Eglantine, last plan · What happens: decide, be, not take, search · To what, where: it, Eglantine
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eglantine, last plan), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 decided | nsubj |
| 2 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 best | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 plan | det |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plan | amod |
| 6 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 best | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 best | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 best | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 decided | ccomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 taken | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 taken | cc |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 taken | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 taken | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 taken | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 taken | aux:pass |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 taken | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prince | det |
| 19 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 taken | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 taken | advmod |
| 22 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 decided | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 direction | det |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 same | advmod |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 direction | amod |
| 26 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taken | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 search | case |
| 28 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 direction | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 search | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | Eglantine | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the last plan | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not take | would · perfect · passive | it | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme direction=Destination | |||||
| 4 | search | Eglantine | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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