The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 79

But as he did not trust himself as a wooer, he determined to send his old mother on the mission.

Who acts: Martin · What happens: not trust, determine, send · To what, where: Martin, old mother, mission

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 determined	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 trust	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 trust	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trust	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 trust	advmod
6	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 determined	advcl
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 trust	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 wooer	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wooer	det
10	wooer	wooer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trust	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 trust	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 determined	nsubj
13	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 send	mark
15	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 determined	xcomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mother	amod
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 send	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 mission	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mission	det
21	mission	mission	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 send	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not trust	past · do-support	Martin	Martin		as a wooer	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	determine	past	Martin				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	send	to-infinitive	Martin not said here	Martin's old mother	the mission		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme

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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