The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 90

They thought they could easily manage that it would be Hans who would lose his life, for the others would be early on the road, while Hans would certainly oversleep himself.

Who acts: Hans, steward, others · What happens: think, manage, be, lose, oversleep · To what, where: Hans, life, squire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, steward, others), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 manage	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 manage	aux
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	6 manage	advmod
6	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 Hans	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 Hans	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 Hans	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 Hans	cop
11	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 manage	obj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 lose	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 lose	aux
14	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Hans	acl:relcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 life	nmod:poss
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lose	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 road	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	26 road	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 others	det
20	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 road	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 road	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 road	cop
23	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 road	advmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 road	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 road	det
26	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 manage	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 oversleep	punct
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 oversleep	mark
29	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	32 oversleep	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 oversleep	aux
31	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	32 oversleep	advmod
32	oversleep	oversleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 manage	conj
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 oversleep	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Hans = han			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	manage	could	Hans = han		easily property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	would	steward	Hans		tree rules
4	lose	would	Hans	squire's life		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality
5	is	would	the others		for the road; early property	tree rules
6	oversleep	would	Hans	squire	certainly property	tree rules

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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