The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 18

She thought it wisest to make her way as best she could out of the forest, and then to pursue the fugitives once more and accomplish their destruction either by force or cunning.

Who acts: church, fugitives · What happens: think, make, pursue, accomplish, destroy · To what, where: way, fugitives, destruction · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (church, fugitives), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wisest	nsubj
4	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 thought	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 way	nmod:poss
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 best	advmod
10	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 forest	amod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 forest	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 forest	aux
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 forest	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pursue	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pursue	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 pursue	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 pursue	mark
21	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fugitives	det
23	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 pursue	obj
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 more	advmod
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 pursue	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 accomplish	cc
27	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 pursue	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 destruction	nmod:poss
29	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 accomplish	obj
30	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 accomplish	advmod
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 force	case
32	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 accomplish	obl
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 cunning	cc
34	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 force	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	church				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive		church's way			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product
3	pursue	to-infinitive		the fugitives	then		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fugitive=Theme
4	accomplish	infinitive		fugitives's destruction		by force or cunning; either property	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent destruction=Eventuality
5	destroy		fugitives = fugitive				nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=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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