The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 81

His unworthy friends feared that he might some day take it into his head to recall his old tutor, so they thought they now had a good opportunity of getting him banished for ever.

Who acts: unworthy friends, brother, anger, good opportunity · What happens: fear, take, recall, think, have, get · To what, where: tutor, head, old tutor, good opportunity, brother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unworthy friends, brother, anger, good opportunity), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friends	nmod:poss
2	unworthy	unworthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 friends	amod
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feared	nsubj
4	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 take	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 take	aux
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obl:unmarked
10	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feared	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 recall	mark
16	recall	recall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 take	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tutor	nmod:poss
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tutor	amod
19	tutor	tutor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 recall	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 thought	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thought	nsubj
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feared	conj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 had	advmod
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thought	ccomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 opportunity	det
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 opportunity	amod
29	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 getting	mark
31	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 opportunity	acl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 getting	obj
33	banished	banish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 getting	xcomp
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 ever	case
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 banished	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	fear	past	brother's unworthy friends				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	take	might	brother	tutor	brother's head	day	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into head=Destination
3	recall	to-infinitive	brother not said here	brother's old tutor			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tutor=Theme
4	think speech: other	past	anger				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	have	past	anger	a good opportunity		now	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient
6	get	gerund	a good opportunity not said here	brother			tree rules
7	banish	participle	brother not said here				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: 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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