The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 98

The Prince began to think that the best thing he could do would be to get as far away from the lake as he could, then at least he would not be continually reminded of his terrible ugliness.

Who acts: Prince, best thing · What happens: begin, think, do, be, not remind · To what, where: best thing, prince, least · 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 (Prince, best thing), 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 think	mark
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 get	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 get	nsubj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thing	acl:relcl
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 get	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 get	cop
15	to	to	PART	_	16 get	mark
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 think	ccomp
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 far	advmod
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 away	advmod
19	away	away	ADV	_	16 get	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 lake	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lake	det
22	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 away	obl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 could	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 could	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 away	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 reminded	punct
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 reminded	advmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 least	case
29	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 reminded	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 reminded	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 reminded	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 reminded	advmod
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 reminded	aux:pass
34	continually	continually	ADV	_	35 reminded	advmod
35	reminded	remind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 began	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 ugliness	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 ugliness	nmod:poss
38	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 ugliness	amod
39	ugliness	ugliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 reminded	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Prince					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	could	prince	the best thing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
4	is	would	the best thing				away, get property	tree rules
5	not remind speech: other	would · passive		prince	least	then	of prince's terrible ugliness; continually property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of ugliness=Topic

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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