The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 86

The Captain now resolved to go himself, but, wiser than the others, he did not mark the house, but looked at it so closely that he could not fail to remember it.

Who acts: Captain · What happens: resolve, go, not mark, look, not fail, remember · To what, where: captain, house

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Captain), 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 Captain	det
2	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 resolved	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 resolved	advmod
4	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 resolved	xcomp
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 go	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wiser	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 wiser	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wiser	punct
11	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 resolved	conj
12	than	than	ADP	_	14 others	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 others	det
14	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wiser	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mark	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 mark	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 mark	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 mark	advmod
19	mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 resolved	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 house	det
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mark	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 looked	cc
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 resolved	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 looked	obl
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 closely	advmod
28	closely	closely	ADV	_	24 looked	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 fail	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fail	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 fail	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 fail	advmod
33	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 looked	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 remember	mark
35	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 fail	xcomp
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 remember	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 resolved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	past	the Captain		now		tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	the Captain not said here	captain			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme
3	not mark	past · do-support	captain	the house			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Destination
4	look	past	the Captain not said here			at house; closely property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
5	not fail	could	captain				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	remember	to-infinitive	captain not said here	house			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=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.

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