The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 55

After Ring had been with the King for some days the latter began to think there was a great deal in him, and esteemed him more than the others.

Who acts: Ring, days, great deal · What happens: be, begin, think, esteem · To what, where: Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ring, days, great deal), 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	After	after	ADP	_	7 King	case
2	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 King	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 King	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 King	cop
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 King	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 began	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 days	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 days	det
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 began	nsubj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 latter	det
12	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 days	amod
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 think	mark
15	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 think	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 deal	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 deal	amod
20	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 deal	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 esteemed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 esteemed	cc
25	esteemed	esteem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 began	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 esteemed	obj
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 esteemed	advmod
28	than	than	ADP	_	30 others	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 others	det
30	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 more	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	Ring			after the King	tree rules
2	begin	past	some days				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	some days not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	be	past	a great deal in Prince		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	esteem	past	some days not said here	Prince			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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