The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 71

‘Though every step that I take may perhaps lead me further from her,’ he said to himself, ‘I am still thankful to know that she is alive somewhere.’

Who acts: I, step, Prince, Rosalie · What happens: take, lead, say, be, know · To what, where: step, me, Prince · 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 (I, step, Prince, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 lead	punct
2	Though	though	SCONJ	_	10 lead	mark
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 step	det
4	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lead	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 take	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 take	nsubj
7	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 step	acl:relcl
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 lead	aux
9	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	10 lead	advmod
10	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 lead	obj
12	further	further	ADV	_	10 lead	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 further	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lead	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 lead	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thankful	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 thankful	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 thankful	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 thankful	cop
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 thankful	advmod
26	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 know	mark
28	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 thankful	advcl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 alive	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 alive	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 alive	cop
32	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 know	ccomp
33	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 alive	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	I	every step				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
2	lead	may	every step	me			further, perhaps property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Prince		Prince			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	is	present	I			still	thankful property	tree rules
5	know	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	present	Rosalie				alive, somewhere property	tree 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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