The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 87

He saw nothing for it but to submit to some horrible death, but he determined that the Iron King should not profit more than he could help, and flung his precious thread into the air, saying, as he did so, ‘O fairy, my misfortunes are greater than your power.

Who acts: Girouette, Iron King, misfortunes · What happens: see, submit, determine, not profit, help, fling · To what, where: nothing, precious thread, air · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Girouette, Iron King, misfortunes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 saw	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nothing	nmod
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 submit	cc
7	to	to	PART	_	8 submit	mark
8	submit	submit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saw	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 death	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 death	det
11	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 death	amod
12	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 submit	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 determined	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 determined	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 determined	nsubj
16	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 profit	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 King	det
19	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 King	compound
20	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 profit	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 profit	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 profit	advmod
23	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 determined	obj
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 profit	amod
25	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 help	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 help	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 help	aux
28	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 more	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 flung	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 flung	cc
31	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 thread	nmod:poss
33	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 thread	amod
34	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flung	obj
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 air	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 air	det
37	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flung	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 saying	punct
39	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 flung	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 did	punct
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 did	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 did	nsubj
43	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 saying	ccomp
44	so	so	ADV	_	43 did	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 fairy	punct
46	‘	'	PUNCT	_	48 fairy	punct
47	O	o	INTJ	_	48 fairy	discourse
48	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 did	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 greater	punct
50	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 misfortunes	nmod:poss
51	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 greater	nsubj
52	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 greater	cop
53	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	48 fairy	parataxis
54	than	than	ADP	_	56 power	case
55	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 power	nmod:poss
56	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 greater	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Girouette	nothing		for heart	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	submit	to-infinitive	Girouette not said here			to some horrible death	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to death=Theme
3	determine	past	Girouette				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not profit	should	the Iron King				tree rules
5	help	could	Girouette				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	fling	past	Girouette not said here	Girouette's precious thread	the air		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thread=Theme into air=Destination
7	say speech: assert	gerund	Girouette not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	do	past	Girouette				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is	present	my misfortunes			than your power; great 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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