The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 14

He instantly began to think how best to make himself happy, and the shortest way that occurred to him was to have Rosalie carried off by his attendant spirits.

Who acts: King, shortest way, Rosalie · What happens: begin, think, make, occur, have, carry off · To what, where: King, Rosalie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, shortest way, Rosalie), 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	3 began	nsubj
2	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 think	mark
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 best	advmod
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 think	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 think	ccomp
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 make	obj
11	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 make	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 have	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	shortest	short	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	nsubj:outer
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 occurred	nsubj
18	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 way	acl:relcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 occurred	obl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
22	to	to	PART	_	23 have	mark
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	conj
24	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
25	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 have	xcomp
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 carried	compound:prt
27	by	by	ADP	_	30 spirits	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 spirits	nmod:poss
29	attendant	attendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spirits	compound
30	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 carried	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	King			instantly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	King not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive		King		happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product
4	occur	past	the shortest way		King		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	the shortest way	Rosalie			tree rules
6	carry off	participle	Rosalie not said here			by King's attendant spirits	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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