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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 69

Now, as the Prince had not the smallest idea where this fountain was to be found, it might be thought that he was not much nearer Rosalie than before.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: have, find, think, be · To what, where: smallest idea, fountain, nearer Rosalie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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

advmodpunctmarkdetnsubjadvcladvmoddetamodobjadvmoddetnsubj:passaux:passmarkaux:passacl:relclpunctnsubj:passauxaux:passmarknsubjcopadvmodadvmodamodccompcaseadvmodpunctrootNowADV,PUNCTasSCONJtheDETPrincePROPNhadVERBnotPARTtheDETsmallestADJideaNOUNwhereADVthisDETfountainNOUNwasAUXtoPARTbeAUXfoundVERB,PUNCTitPRONmightAUXbeAUXthoughtVERBthatSCONJhePRONwasAUXnotPARTmuchADVnearerADJRosaliePROPNthanADPbeforeADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem22 thoughtadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Nowpunct
3asasSCONJ_6 hadmark
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 Princedet
5PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing6 hadnsubj
6hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 thoughtadvcl
7notnotPARTPolarity=Neg10 ideaadvmod
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 ideadet
9smallestsmallADJDegree=Sup10 ideaamod
10ideaideaNOUNNumber=Sing6 hadobj
11wherewhereADVPronType=Rel17 foundadvmod
12thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem13 fountaindet
13fountainfountainNOUNNumber=Sing17 foundnsubj:pass
14wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 foundaux:pass
15totoPART_17 foundmark
16bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf17 foundaux:pass
17foundfindVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass10 ideaacl:relcl
18,,PUNCT_6 hadpunct
19ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 thoughtnsubj:pass
20mightmightAUXVerbForm=Fin22 thoughtaux
21bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf22 thoughtaux:pass
22thoughtthinkVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
23thatthatSCONJ_29 Rosaliemark
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 Rosaliensubj
25wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 Rosaliecop
26notnotPARTPolarity=Neg27 muchadvmod
27muchmuchADV_28 neareradvmod
28nearernearADJDegree=Cmp29 Rosalieamod
29RosalieRosaliePROPNNumber=Sing22 thoughtccomp
30thanthanADP_31 beforecase
31beforebeforeADV_22 thoughtadvmod
32..PUNCT_22 thoughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepastthe Princethe smallest ideavn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
2findpast · passivethe Prince not said herethis fountainvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3think speech: othermight · passivefountainnowbefore propertyvn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4is apastPrincenearer Rosalietree 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 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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