The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 74
Who could have believed that I should ever be obliged to run away and hide because the King, for no reason at all, wishes to kill me?”
What happens: believe, oblige, run away, hide, wish, kill · To what, where: I, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 believed | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 believed | aux |
| 4 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 wishes | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 obliged | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 obliged | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 obliged | aux |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 obliged | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 obliged | aux:pass |
| 10 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 believed | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 run | mark |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 obliged | xcomp |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 run | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hide | cc |
| 15 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 run | conj |
| 16 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 18 King | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 hide | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 reason | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 reason | case |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 reason | det |
| 22 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 King | acl:relcl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 all | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 reason | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wishes | punct |
| 26 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 kill | mark |
| 28 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 wishes | ccomp |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 kill | obj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 wishes | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 wishes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | could · perfect · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | oblige | should · passive | I | ever | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | run away | to-infinitive | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hide | present | because the King | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | wish | present | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/30/74/