The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 22

Now he was almost in despair, and ready to defy everything and throw himself into the lake.

Who acts: king · What happens: be, defy, throw · To what, where: despair, everything, king, lake

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 despair	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 despair	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 despair	cop
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 despair	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 despair	case
6	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ready	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ready	cc
9	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 despair	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 defy	mark
11	defy	defy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ready	xcomp
12	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 defy	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 throw	cc
14	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 defy	conj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 throw	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 lake	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lake	det
18	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 throw	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 despair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	king		despair	now	almost property	tree rules
2	be		king not said here					tree rules
3	defy	to-infinitive	king not said here	everything				tree rules
4	throw	infinitive	king not said here	king			into the lake result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer himself=Theme into lake=Result

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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