The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 185
Then, after awhile, he began to think he had better make the best of it, especially as the old governor had been clever enough to send him back his letter, and the king was pretty sure that this was in the princess’s handwriting.
Who acts: king, old governor, this · What happens: begin, think, have, make, be, send back · To what, where: best, letter, king, handwriting · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, old governor, this), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 began | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 awhile | case |
| 4 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 7 began | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 awhile | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 began | nsubj |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 think | mark |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 think | ccomp |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 make | csubj |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 best | det |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 make | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 best | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 clever | punct |
| 19 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 26 clever | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 clever | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 governor | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 governor | amod |
| 23 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clever | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 clever | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 clever | cop |
| 26 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 make | conj |
| 27 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 26 clever | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 send | mark |
| 29 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 clever | advcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 send | obj |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 send | advmod |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 letter | nmod:poss |
| 33 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 send | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sure | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 sure | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 king | det |
| 37 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sure | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 sure | cop |
| 39 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 40 sure | advmod |
| 40 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 began | conj |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 handwriting | mark |
| 42 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 handwriting | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 handwriting | cop |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 handwriting | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 princess | det |
| 46 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 handwriting | nmod:poss |
| 47 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 46 princess | case |
| 48 | handwriting | handwriting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sure | ccomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | king | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | king not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | king | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | king not said here | the best | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product | ||||
| 5 | is | past · perfect | the old governor | clever, enough, especially property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | send back | to-infinitive | the old governor not said here | king's letter | king | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination letter=Theme | |||
| 7 | is | past | the king | pretty, sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is | past | this | the princess's handwriting | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | letter | king | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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