The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 85

At last he remembered the conversation of the two Princes about the cabinets of the years, and that if he could manage to reach the oak tree, he would be certain to discover what had become of Rosalie.

Who acts: spite, two Princes · What happens: remember, manage, reach, be, discover, become · To what, where: conversation, last, oak tree

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 (spite, two Princes), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remembered	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 remembered	nsubj
4	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 conversation	det
6	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remembered	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Princes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princes	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 Princes	nummod
10	Princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 conversation	nmod
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 cabinets	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cabinets	det
13	cabinets	cabinet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Princes	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 years	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 years	det
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cabinets	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 manage	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 manage	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 manage	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 manage	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 manage	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 manage	aux
23	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 remembered	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 reach	mark
25	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 manage	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tree	det
27	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tree	compound
28	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reach	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 certain	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 certain	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 certain	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 certain	cop
33	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 remembered	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 discover	mark
35	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 certain	csubj
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 become	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 become	aux
38	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 discover	ccomp
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Rosalie	case
40	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 become	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remember	past	spite	the conversation of the two Princes about the cabinets of the years	last		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent conversation=Theme
2	manage a condition, not said to happen	could	spite				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	reach	to-infinitive	spite not said here	the oak tree			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
4	is	would	spite			certain property	tree rules
5	discover	to-infinitive					vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	become	past · perfect				of Rosalie	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	converse		the two Princes about the cabinets of the years				nom conversation «communication intransitive»: of=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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