The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 76

But just as the King was thinking that it would be well to proclaim that the riding should take place next day for the last time, so that they might have one more chance, he suddenly bethought himself that it would be well to wait a little longer to see if the knight in copper armor would come on this day too.

Who acts: King, more, riding, princes, knight · What happens: think, be, proclaim, take, have, bethink · To what, where: place, one more chance, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, more, riding, princes), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 thinking	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	7 thinking	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 thinking	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thinking	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thinking	aux
7	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 bethought	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 proclaim	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 proclaim	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 proclaim	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 well	cop
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 proclaim	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 proclaim	mark
14	proclaim	proclaim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thinking	ccomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 take	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 riding	det
17	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 proclaim	advcl
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obl:unmarked
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 time	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 time	det
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 time	amod
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 have	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 have	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 have	aux
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 proclaim	conj
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 chance	nummod
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 chance	amod
35	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thinking	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 bethought	nsubj
38	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	39 bethought	advmod
39	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
40	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 bethought	obj
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 well	mark
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 well	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 well	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 well	cop
45	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 bethought	advmod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 wait	mark
47	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 well	advcl
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 little	det
49	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	50 longer	advmod
50	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	47 wait	advmod
51	to	to	PART	_	52 see	mark
52	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 wait	advcl
53	if	if	SCONJ	_	60 come	mark
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 knight	det
55	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 come	nsubj
56	in	in	ADP	_	58 armor	case
57	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 armor	compound
58	armor	armor	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 knight	nmod
59	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 come	aux
60	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 see	ccomp
61	on	on	ADP	_	63 day	case
62	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	63 day	det
63	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 come	obl
64	too	too	ADV	_	60 come	advmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 bethought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	the King				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is	infinitive				well property	tree rules
3	proclaim	would	more				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	take	should	the riding	place	day; time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
5	have	might	princes = prince	one more chance			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
6	bethink	past	King	King		suddenly property	tree rules
7	is	would	more			well property	tree rules
8	wait	to-infinitive	more not said here			long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	see	to-infinitive	more not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	come a condition, not said to happen	would	the knight in copper armor		day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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