The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 19

After a time he began to get hungry, so he decided that he had better try to find his way out of the forest, and perhaps he might have a chance of getting something to eat.

Who acts: king, better try, chance · What happens: begin, get, decide, have, find, eat · To what, where: better try, way, forest, chance, something

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, better try, chance), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 decided	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 decided	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 decided	nsubj
12	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 decided	ccomp
16	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 try	amod
17	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 find	mark
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	xcomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 way	nmod:poss
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obj
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 forest	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 forest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 forest	det
25	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 have	cc
28	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	31 have	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 chance	det
33	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
34	of	of	SCONJ	_	35 getting	mark
35	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 chance	acl
36	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	35 getting	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 eat	mark
38	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 something	acl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	king			time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get	to-infinitive	king not said here				hungry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	decide	past	king					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	past	king	better try				tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive	better try not said here	king's way	the forest			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
6	have	might	king	a chance			perhaps property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
7	get	gerund	a chance not said here	something				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
8	eat	to-infinitive	a chance not said here	something not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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