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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 111

The prince, however, felt that his life was not safe in this murderer’s den, and asked the maid to help him to escape that night.

Who acts: prince, life · What happens: feel, not be, ask, help, escape · To what, where: den, maid, prince

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, life), 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

detnsubjpunctadvmodpunctmarknmod:possnsubjcopadvmodccompcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctccconjdetobjmarkxcompobjmarkxcompdetobl:unmarkedpunctrootTheDETprinceNOUN,PUNCThoweverADV,PUNCTfeltVERBthatSCONJhisPRONlifeNOUNwasAUXnotPARTsafeADJinADPthisDETmurdererNOUN’sPARTdenNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJaskedVERBtheDETmaidNOUNtoPARThelpVERBhimPRONtoPARTescapeVERBthatDETnightNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 princedet
2princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing6 feltnsubj
3,,PUNCT_2 princepunct
4howeverhoweverADV_6 feltadvmod
5,,PUNCT_4 howeverpunct
6feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7thatthatSCONJ_12 safemark
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 lifenmod:poss
9lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing12 safensubj
10wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 safecop
11notnotPARTPolarity=Neg12 safeadvmod
12safesafeADJDegree=Pos6 feltccomp
13ininADP_17 dencase
14thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem15 murdererdet
15murderermurdererNOUNNumber=Sing17 dennmod:poss
16’s'sPART_15 murderercase
17dendenNOUNNumber=Sing12 safeobl
18,,PUNCT_20 askedpunct
19andandCCONJ_20 askedcc
20askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 feltconj
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 maiddet
22maidmaidNOUNNumber=Sing20 askedobj
23totoPART_24 helpmark
24helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf20 askedxcomp
25himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 helpobj
26totoPART_27 escapemark
27escapeescapeVERBVerbForm=Inf24 helpxcomp
28thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem29 nightdet
29nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing27 escapeobl:unmarked
30..PUNCT_6 feltpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1feelpastthe princehowever propertyvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2not ispastprince's lifethis murderer's densafe propertytree rules
3ask speech: askpastthe prince not said herethe maidvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent maid=Recipient clause=Topic
4help not said to happento-infinitivethe prince not said hereprincevn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5escape not said to happento-infinitiveprince not said herenightvn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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