The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 33

By this time I thought it most prudent to lie still till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could easily free myself; and as for the inhabitants, I thought I might be a match for the greatest army they could bring against me if they were all of the same size as him I saw.

Who acts: I, strings · What happens: think, lie, be, bring, see · To what, where: match, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, strings), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 prudent	nsubj
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 prudent	advmod
8	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thought	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 lie	mark
10	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 prudent	xcomp
11	still	still	ADV	_	10 lie	advmod
12	till	till	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lie	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 loose	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 loose	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hand	punct
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hand	nmod:poss
18	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hand	amod
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 loose	obl
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 loose	cop
21	already	already	ADV	_	22 loose	advmod
22	loose	loose	ADV	_	27 free	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 loose	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 free	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 free	aux
26	easily	easily	ADV	_	27 free	advmod
27	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thought	ccomp
28	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 free	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 thought	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 thought	cc
31	as	as	ADV	_	37 thought	advmod
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 inhabitants	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 inhabitants	det
34	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 as	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 as	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 thought	nsubj
37	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	conj
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 match	nsubj
39	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 match	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 match	cop
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 match	det
42	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 thought	ccomp
43	for	for	ADP	_	46 army	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 army	det
45	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	46 army	amod
46	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 bring	obl
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 bring	nsubj
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 bring	aux
49	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 match	parataxis
50	against	against	ADP	_	51 me	case
51	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 bring	obl
52	if	if	SCONJ	_	63 saw	mark
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 all	nsubj
54	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 all	cop
55	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	63 saw	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	59 size	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 size	det
58	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 size	amod
59	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 all	nmod
60	as	as	ADP	_	61 him	case
61	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 all	nmod
62	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	63 saw	nsubj
63	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 bring	advcl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I		time		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lie	to-infinitive	I not said here		still; night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	gerund				my left hand obl; loose property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	might	I	a match			tree rules
6	bring	could	strings = string			for the greatest army; against me	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent against i=Destination
7	see a condition, not said to happen	past	I	all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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