The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 70
But in spite of that I think I must try my luck,’ and he took the road to the castle.
Who acts: I, head · What happens: think, try, take, spite · To what, where: spite, luck, road, castle, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, head), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 think | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 spite | case |
| 3 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 spite | nmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 try | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 try | aux |
| 10 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 think | ccomp |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 luck | nmod:poss |
| 12 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 try | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 road | det |
| 19 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 castle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 castle | det |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | spite of that | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | must | I | my luck | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | take | past | head | the road | the castle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent road=Theme to castle=Destination | |||
| 4 | spite | that | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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