The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 44
Esben thought that this was the worst errand that he had had yet, but he could not do worse than fail, and so he would make the attempt.
Who acts: Esben, this, property · What happens: think, be, have, not do, make · To what, where: worst errand, attempt
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Esben, this, property), 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 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 errand | mark |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 errand | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 errand | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 errand | det |
| 7 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 errand | amod |
| 8 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 had | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | aux |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 errand | acl:relcl |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 had | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 do | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 do | advmod |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | conj |
| 20 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 do | xcomp |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 fail | case |
| 22 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 worse | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 make | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 make | cc |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 make | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 make | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | aux |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 attempt | det |
| 30 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Esben | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | the worst errand | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past · perfect | property | the worst errand | yet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | |||
| 4 | not do | could | property | bad property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | make | would | property | the attempt | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Product |
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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