The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 39

And at the end he understood that it was not by the river that he would win the princess; and, turning to his books for comfort, he studied harder than ever.

Who acts: Gilguerillo, end · What happens: understand, not be, win, turn, study · To what, where: end, princess, books

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gilguerillo, end), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 understood	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 end	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 understood	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 understood	nsubj
6	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 river	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 river	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 river	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 river	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 understood	obj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 win	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 win	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 win	aux
17	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 river	acl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 princess	det
19	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 win	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 turning	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 turning	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turning	punct
23	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 understood	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 books	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 books	nmod:poss
26	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 turning	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 comfort	case
28	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turning	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 studied	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 studied	nsubj
31	studied	study	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 turning	conj
32	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 studied	advmod
33	than	than	ADP	_	34 ever	case
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 harder	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past	Gilguerillo			at the end		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is	past	end				by the river	tree rules
3	win	would	Gilguerillo	the princess				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality
4	turn	gerund			Gilguerillo's books		for comfort	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to book=Trajectory
5	study	past	Gilguerillo				hard property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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