The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 153

He is going to the cavern alone, though if he had a hundred men with him he could not succeed.

Who acts: man · What happens: go, have, not succeed · To what, where: cavern, hundred men

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 cavern	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cavern	det
6	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 going	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 men	det
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 men	nummod
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 men	nmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 succeed	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 succeed	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 succeed	advmod
21	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	man		the cavern	alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cavern=Initial_Location
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	man	a hundred men		with dog	tree rules
3	not succeed	could	man				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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