The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 31

I was willing to give him that pleasure, but I was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to find the way here by himself, so I made myself ready to go with him.

Who acts: I, man, myself · What happens: be, give, not be, find, make, go · To what, where: pleasure, man, way, myself

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 (I, man, myself), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 willing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 willing	cop
3	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 give	mark
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 willing	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 pleasure	det
8	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 afraid	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 afraid	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 afraid	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 afraid	cop
13	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 willing	advcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 able	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 able	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 able	aux
17	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 able	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 able	cop
19	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 afraid	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 find	mark
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 able	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 way	det
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	obj
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 find	advmod
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 himself	case
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 find	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 made	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 made	advmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 made	nsubj
30	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 willing	parataxis
31	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 made	obj
32	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 made	xcomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 go	mark
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 ready	xcomp
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 go	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 willing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	I				willing property	tree rules
2	give	to-infinitive	I not said here	that pleasure	man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pleasure=Theme
3	is	past	I				afraid property	tree rules
4	not is	would	man				able property	tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive	man not said here	the way		here	by man	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
6	make	past	I	myself			ready property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Product
7	go	to-infinitive	myself not said here				with man	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary

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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