The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 6

The King said to himself that this would not be very difficult, and he left the Fairy, determined to grind the cat’s tail to powder rather than not tread on it at all.

Who acts: King, this · What happens: say, not be, leave, determine, grind, powder · To what, where: king, Fairy, tail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 said	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 difficult	mark
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 difficult	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 difficult	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 difficult	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 difficult	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 difficult	advmod
12	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 left	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 left	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 left	nsubj
16	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Fairy	det
18	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 left	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 determined	punct
20	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 left	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 grind	mark
22	grind	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 determined	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cat	det
24	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tail	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 cat	case
26	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grind	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 powder	mark
28	powder	powder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 grind	advcl
29	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	32 tread	cc
30	than	than	ADP	_	29 rather	fixed
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 tread	advmod
32	tread	tread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 powder	conj
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tread	obl
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 all	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 tread	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the King		king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
2	not is	would	this				difficult property	tree rules
3	leave	past	king	the Fairy				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme
4	determine	participle	king not said here					vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	grind	to-infinitive	king not said here	the cat's tail				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
6	powder	to-infinitive	king not said here					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	not tread	infinitive	king not said here			tail	at all	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory

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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