The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 17

Her reason for this was that she felt persuaded that, finding himself suddenly alone and robbed of everything, the king would hide his real birth, and would have to fall back on his powers of pleasing, like other men, which would be much better for him.

Who acts: king, other men · What happens: be, find, rob, hide, have, fall back · To what, where: reason, king, real birth, powers

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, other men), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 reason	nmod:poss
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 persuaded	nsubj:outer
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 this	case
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 reason	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 persuaded	cop
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 persuaded	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 persuaded	nsubj:pass
8	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 persuaded	aux:pass
9	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 hide	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 finding	mark
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 finding	punct
12	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 persuaded	advcl
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 finding	obj
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 finding	advmod
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 finding	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 robbed	cc
17	robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 persuaded	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 everything	case
19	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 robbed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hide	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hide	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 hide	aux
24	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 birth	nmod:poss
26	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 birth	amod
27	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hide	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 have	cc
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 hide	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 fall	mark
33	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 have	xcomp
34	back	back	ADV	_	33 fall	advmod
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 powers	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 powers	nmod:poss
37	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fall	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 pleasing	case
39	pleasing	pleasing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 powers	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 men	punct
41	like	like	ADP	_	43 men	case
42	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 men	amod
43	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fall	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 better	punct
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 better	nsubj
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 better	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 better	cop
48	much	much	ADV	_	49 better	advmod
49	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 men	conj
50	for	for	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 better	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 hide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past · passive		Aveline's reason for this		persuade property	tree rules
2	find	gerund		king		alone, suddenly property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	rob	participle				of everything	vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent of everything=Source
4	hide	would	the king	king's real birth			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Patient
5	have	would	the king not said here				tree rules
6	fall back	to-infinitive	the king not said here		king's powers of pleasing	like other men	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on power=Location
7	is	would	other men			for king; good 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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