The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 89
But he could think of no way of escape.
Who acts: Ferko · What happens: think
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 think | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 think | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 escape | case |
| 9 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 way | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | could | Ferko | of no way of escape | vn focus-87.1-1 «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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