The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 57

Such a handsome sheep, who was so polite and considerate, could hardly fail to please, especially if one knew that he was really a king, and that his strange imprisonment would soon come to an end.

Who acts: handsome sheep, one, King, strange imprisonment · What happens: be, fail, know, come, imprison · To what, where: king, end

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (handsome sheep, one, King, strange imprisonment), 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	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	4 sheep	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sheep	det
3	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sheep	amod
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 polite	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 polite	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 polite	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 polite	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 polite	advmod
9	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 considerate	cc
11	considerate	considerate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 polite	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fail	punct
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 fail	aux
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	15 fail	advmod
15	fail	fail	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 polite	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 please	mark
17	please	please	INTJ	_	15 fail	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knew	punct
19	especially	especially	ADV	_	22 knew	advmod
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 knew	mark
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 knew	nsubj
22	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fail	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 king	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 king	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 king	cop
26	really	really	ADV	_	28 king	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 knew	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 come	cc
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 come	mark
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 imprisonment	nmod:poss
33	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 imprisonment	amod
34	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 come	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
36	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 come	advmod
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 fail	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 end	case
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 end	det
40	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 come	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 polite	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	such handsome sheep			polite property	tree rules
2	be		such handsome sheep not said here				tree rules
3	fail	could				hardly property	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know a condition, not said to happen	past	one			especially property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	King	a king			tree rules
6	come	would	King's strange imprisonment		to a end	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
7	imprison		King				nom imprisonment «act transitive»: poss=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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