The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 2

Now the King, though he felt that he was growing old, did not at all wish to give up the government of his kingdom while he could still manage it very well, so he thought the best way to live in peace would be to divert the minds of his sons by promises which he could always get out of when the time came for keeping them.

Who acts: King, best way, time · What happens: feel, grow, do, give up, manage, think · To what, where: wish, government, peace, promises, sons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, best way, time), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 felt	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 felt	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 felt	punct
5	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 felt	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 felt	nsubj
7	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 growing	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 growing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 growing	aux
11	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 felt	advcl
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 growing	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 felt	conj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 wish	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 wish	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 wish	det
18	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 did	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 give	mark
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wish	acl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 give	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 government	det
23	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 kingdom	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 kingdom	nmod:poss
26	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 government	nmod
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 manage	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 manage	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 manage	aux
30	still	still	ADV	_	31 manage	advmod
31	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 give	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 manage	obj
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 well	advmod
34	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 manage	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 thought	punct
36	so	so	ADV	_	38 thought	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 thought	nsubj
38	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 felt	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 way	det
40	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 way	amod
41	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 divert	nsubj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 live	mark
43	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 way	acl
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 peace	case
45	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 live	obl
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 divert	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 divert	cop
48	to	to	PART	_	49 divert	mark
49	divert	divert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 thought	ccomp
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 minds	det
51	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 divert	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 sons	case
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 sons	nmod:poss
54	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 minds	nmod
55	by	by	ADP	_	56 promises	case
56	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 divert	obl
57	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 get	obj
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 get	nsubj
59	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 get	aux
60	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	61 get	advmod
61	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 promises	acl:relcl
62	out	out	ADP	_	61 get	advmod
63	of	of	ADP	_	62 out	fixed
64	when	when	SCONJ	_	67 came	mark
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 time	det
66	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 came	nsubj
67	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 get	advcl
68	for	for	SCONJ	_	69 keeping	mark
69	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	67 came	advcl
70	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 keeping	obj
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the King			now		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	grow	past · progressive	king				old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	past	the King not said here	all wish				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality
4	give up	to-infinitive	the King not said here	the government of king's kingdom				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Source
5	manage	could	king	government		still	well property	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	think speech: other	past	king					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	live	to-infinitive	the best way not said here		peace			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location
8	is	would	the best way				by promises; divert property	tree rules
9	get out	could	king	promises			always property	tree rules
10	come	past	the time					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	keep	gerund	the time not said here	sons = son				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
12	mind			king's sons				nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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