The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 54

The prince had it in mind that this might be another magician who could give him some other shape, but still it seemed best to allow himself to be caught.

Who acts: prince, this, magician, it · What happens: have, be, give, seem, allow, catch · To what, where: pet, mind, magician, other shape, prince

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, this, magician, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 mind	case
6	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 magician	mark
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 magician	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 magician	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 magician	cop
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 magician	det
12	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	advcl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 give	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 give	aux
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 magician	acl:relcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	iobj
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 shape	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 shape	amod
19	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seemed	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 seemed	cc
22	still	still	ADV	_	24 seemed	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seemed	nsubj
24	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
25	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 seemed	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 allow	mark
27	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seemed	xcomp
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 allow	iobj
29	to	to	PART	_	31 caught	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 caught	aux:pass
31	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 allow	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the prince	pet		mind			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is a	might	this	another magician					tree rules
3	give	could	another magician	some other shape	prince				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient shape=Theme
4	seem	past	it				still	good property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	allow	to-infinitive			prince				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
6	catch	to-infinitive · passive							vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»

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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