The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 245

At last the Prime Minister began to be afraid that the King would be starved to death, so he resolved to hide himself in some dark corner of the kitchen, and never take his eyes off the cooking-pot.

Who acts: thing · What happens: begin, be, starve, resolve, hide, not take · To what, where: last Prime Minister, King, thing, dark corner, eyes, cooking pot

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	At	at	ADP	_	5 Minister	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Minister	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Minister	det
4	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	5 Minister	compound
5	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 afraid	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 afraid	cop
9	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 began	xcomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 starved	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 starved	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 starved	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 starved	aux:pass
15	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 afraid	ccomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 death	case
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 starved	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 resolved	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 resolved	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 resolved	nsubj
21	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 hide	mark
23	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 resolved	xcomp
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 hide	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 corner	case
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 corner	det
27	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 corner	amod
28	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hide	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 kitchen	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 kitchen	det
31	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 corner	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 take	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 take	cc
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 take	advmod
35	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 began	parataxis
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 eyes	nmod:poss
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 take	obj
38	off	off	ADP	_	42 pot	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 pot	det
40	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pot	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 cooking	punct
42	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 take	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past			the last Prime Minister		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	to-infinitive				afraid property	tree rules
3	starve	would · passive		the King		to death	tree rules
4	resolve	past	thing				tree rules
5	hide	to-infinitive	thing not said here	thing	some dark corner of the kitchen		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in corner=Location
6	not take	infinitive		thing's eyes	the cooking pot		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme off pot=Initial_Location

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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