The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 94

One day he thought to himself: ‘It is very strange that no one can get to see the Princess.

Who acts: soldier, court, one · What happens: think, be, get, see · To what, where: soldier, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, court, one), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 thought	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 strange	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 strange	punct
9	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 strange	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 strange	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 strange	advmod
12	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	ccomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 get	mark
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 strange	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 get	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Princess	det
21	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	soldier		soldier	day		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	court				strange property	tree rules
3	get	can	no one					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	see	to-infinitive	no one not said here	the Princess				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=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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