The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 91

‘Better,’ he said to himself, ‘trust to a thread than to the mercies of a king;’ and, gliding down, he found himself safe on the other side of the wall.

Who acts: thread · What happens: say, glide down, find · To what, where: thread, other side · 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 (thread), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Better	punct
2	Better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Better	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Better	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 trust	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 trust	punct
11	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 thread	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thread	det
14	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trust	nmod
15	than	than	ADP	_	18 mercies	case
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 mercies	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mercies	det
18	mercies	mercy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thread	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 king	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mercies	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gliding	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gliding	punct
26	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	conj
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 gliding	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 found	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 found	nsubj
30	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 found	obj
32	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 found	xcomp
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 side	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 side	det
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 side	amod
36	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 found	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 wall	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wall	det
39	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 side	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	thread		thread			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
2	glide down	gerund	thread not said here				down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	thread	thread		the other side of the wall	safe property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic

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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