The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 73

But suddenly a better plan entered the prince’s head, and, letting the others pass him, he took his precious parcel from his breast and wished himself a lion.

Who acts: better plan, others, plan · What happens: enter, let, pass, take, wish · To what, where: head, plan, precious parcel, breast

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (better plan, others, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 entered	cc
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	6 entered	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plan	det
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 plan	amod
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entered	nsubj
6	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 head	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 prince	case
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 letting	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 letting	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 letting	punct
14	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 entered	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 others	det
16	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pass	nsubj
17	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 letting	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pass	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 took	nsubj
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pass	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 parcel	nmod:poss
23	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 parcel	amod
24	parcel	parcel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 breast	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 breast	nmod:poss
27	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wished	cc
29	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 wished	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 lion	det
32	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wished	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	past	a better plan	the prince's head		suddenly property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination
2	let	gerund	a better plan not said here				tree rules
3	pass	present	the others	plan			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Trajectory
4	take	past	plan	prince's precious parcel	prince's breast		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent parcel=Theme from breast=Initial_Location
5	wish	past	plan not said here	plan			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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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