The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 11
Fanfaronade, being once more left with the Princess, began to think that if he could get rid of her, and possess himself of the carbuncle and the dagger, he would be able to make his escape.
Who acts: Fanfaronade · What happens: be, begin, think, get, possess, make · To what, where: Fanfaronade, escape
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (Fanfaronade), 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 | Fanfaronade | Fanfaronade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 began | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 left | cop |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 left | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 left | advmod |
| 6 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Fanfaronade | amod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Princess | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fanfaronade | punct |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 think | mark |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 get | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 get | aux |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 think | ccomp |
| 19 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 get | xcomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rid | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 possess | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 possess | cc |
| 24 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 think | conj |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 possess | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 carbuncle | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 carbuncle | det |
| 28 | carbuncle | carbuncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 possess | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 dagger | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 dagger | det |
| 31 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 carbuncle | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 able | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 able | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 able | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 able | cop |
| 36 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 began | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 make | mark |
| 38 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 able | xcomp |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 escape | nmod:poss |
| 40 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 make | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | with the Princess; left, once property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | Fanfaronade | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Fanfaronade not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get a condition, not said to happen | could | Fanfaronade | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | possess | infinitive | Fanfaronade not said here | Fanfaronade | of the carbuncle and the dagger | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme | |||
| 6 | is | would | Fanfaronade | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | Fanfaronade not said here | Fanfaronade's escape | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset escape=Product | ||||
| 8 | escape | Fanfaronade | nom escape «act 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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