The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 17
However, he agreed at length, though he succeeded in himself drawing up the conditions on which I should be set free.
Who acts: majesty, I · What happens: agree, succeed, draw up, be · To what, where: length, conditions
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (majesty, I), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 agreed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 length | case |
| 6 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 succeeded | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 10 succeeded | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 succeeded | nsubj |
| 10 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 himself | case |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 succeeded | obl |
| 13 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 succeeded | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 drawing | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 conditions | det |
| 16 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 drawing | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 free | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 free | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 free | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 free | cop |
| 22 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 free | amod |
| 23 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 conditions | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | majesty | length | however property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | succeed | past | majesty | in majesty | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in himself=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | draw up | gerund | majesty not said here | the conditions | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | should | I | the conditions | free property | tree rules |
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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