The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 51

The Prince now began to be less afraid of the Dog.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: begin, be

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	8 afraid	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 afraid	cop
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 afraid	advmod
8	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 began	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Dog	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Dog	det
11	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 afraid	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Prince				now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here					of the Dog; afraid, less 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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