The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 126

Perhaps his terrible thirst was a trick of the cunning witch, and suppose, even though he opened the orange on the banks of the stream, that he did not find in it the princess that he sought?

Who acts: terrible thirst, traveller · What happens: be, suppose, open, not find, seek, thirst · To what, where: trick, orange, banks, princess, thirst · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terrible thirst, traveller), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	4 thirst	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 thirst	nmod:poss
3	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thirst	amod
4	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trick	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trick	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trick	det
7	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 witch	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 witch	det
10	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 witch	amod
11	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trick	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 suppose	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 suppose	cc
14	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 trick	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 opened	punct
16	even	even	ADV	_	19 opened	advmod
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 opened	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 opened	nsubj
19	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 suppose	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 orange	det
21	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 opened	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 banks	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 banks	det
24	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 opened	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 stream	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stream	det
27	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 banks	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 find	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 find	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 find	nsubj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 find	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 find	advmod
33	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 suppose	advcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 find	obl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 princess	det
37	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 find	obj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 sought	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 sought	nsubj
40	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 find	ccomp
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 trick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	traveller's terrible thirst	a trick		of the cunning witch	tree rules
2	suppose	infinitive					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	open	past	traveller	the orange	the banks of the stream		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent orange=Theme on bank=Location
4	not find	past · do-support	traveller	the princess	thirst		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent princess=Attribute clause=Theme
5	seek	past	traveller				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	thirst		traveller				nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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