The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 24

Not because he did not wish very much to escape, but he was afraid that this might be only another device by which the Fairy of the Desert was trying to deceive him.

Who acts: King, this, Fairy · What happens: not wish, escape, be, try, deceive · To what, where: device, King

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, this, Fairy), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wish	advmod
2	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 wish	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wish	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wish	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wish	advmod
6	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	6 wish	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 escape	mark
10	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 much	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 afraid	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 afraid	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 afraid	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 afraid	cop
15	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wish	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 device	mark
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 device	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 device	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 device	cop
20	only	only	ADV	_	22 device	advmod
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 device	det
22	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 afraid	ccomp
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 trying	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Fairy	det
26	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 trying	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Desert	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Desert	det
29	Desert	Desert	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Fairy	nmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 trying	aux
31	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 device	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 deceive	mark
33	deceive	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 trying	xcomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 deceive	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not wish	past · do-support	King			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	escape	to-infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	King		afraid property	tree rules
4	is a	might	this	another device		tree rules
5	try	past · progressive	the Fairy of the Desert		by another device	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	deceive not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Fairy of the Desert not said here	King		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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