The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 79
Drakestail was in despair of getting himself out of such a deep hole, when he remembered his lady friend, the Ladder.
Who acts: Drakestail, despair · What happens: be, get, remember · To what, where: despair, Drakestail, deep hole, lady friend
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, 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 (Drakestail, despair), 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 | Drakestail | Drakestail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 despair | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 despair | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 despair | case |
| 4 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 getting | mark |
| 6 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 despair | acl |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 getting | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 hole | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hole | case |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 hole | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hole | det |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hole | amod |
| 13 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 getting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 remembered | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 remembered | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 remembered | nsubj |
| 17 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 despair | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friend | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 friend | compound |
| 20 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 remembered | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ladder | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Ladder | det |
| 23 | Ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 friend | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 despair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Drakestail | despair | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | gerund | despair not said here | Drakestail | such deep hole | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | remember | past | Drakestail | Drakestail's lady friend and the Ladder | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent friend=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 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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