The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 29

He made careful inquiries into the matter, and thought it hardly probable that a quiet widow and a young girl would think of attempting anything of the nature of a revolution.

Who acts: King, quiet widow · What happens: make, think, attempt · To what, where: careful inquiries, matter, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, quiet widow), 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	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 inquiries	amod
4	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 matter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 matter	det
7	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	obj
12	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	13 probable	advmod
13	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thought	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 think	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 widow	det
16	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 widow	amod
17	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 think	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 girl	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 girl	det
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 girl	amod
21	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 widow	conj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 think	aux
23	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 probable	ccomp
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 attempting	mark
25	attempting	attempt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 think	advcl
26	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 attempting	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 nature	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 nature	det
29	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 anything	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 revolution	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 revolution	det
32	revolution	revolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 nature	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	King	careful inquiries	the matter		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent inquiry=Material into matter=Product
2	think speech: other	past	King not said here	matter		probable property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	think speech: other	would	a quiet widow and a young girl				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	attempt	gerund	a quiet widow and a young girl not said here	anything			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

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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