The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 13

It was plain to the boy that he must invent some plan of getting the Bad One out of the way, or else he would never be able to steal the gold or the bridge.

Who acts: dinner, sight, plan · What happens: be, invent, get, not be, steal · To what, where: plan, Bad, gold

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dinner, sight, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 plain	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 plain	cop
3	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 boy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plain	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 invent	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 invent	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 invent	aux
10	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 plain	advcl
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 plan	det
12	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 invent	obj
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 getting	mark
14	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 plan	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Bad	det
16	Bad	Bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 getting	obj
17	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 getting	obj
18	out	out	ADP	_	21 way	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 way	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 One	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 able	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 able	cc
24	else	else	ADV	_	29 able	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 able	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 able	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 able	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	cop
29	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plain	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 steal	mark
31	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 gold	det
33	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 steal	obj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 bridge	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bridge	det
36	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gold	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 plain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	dinner		to the boy; plain property	tree rules
2	invent	must	sight	some plan		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result
3	get	gerund	some plan not said here	the Bad		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent bad=Beneficiary one=Theme
4	not is	would	sight		able, else property	tree rules
5	steal	to-infinitive	sight not said here	the gold or the bridge		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme

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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