The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 15

Then he knew that without the maiden’s advice he would certainly have been lost, and began to put it into practice.

Who acts: maiden · What happens: know, lose, begin, put · To what, where: that, maiden, advice, practice

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 knew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 knew	obj
5	without	without	ADP	_	9 advice	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maiden	det
7	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 advice	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 maiden	case
9	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lost	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 lost	aux
12	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	15 lost	advmod
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 lost	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 lost	aux:pass
15	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 advice	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 put	mark
20	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 practice	case
23	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	maiden	that		then	without the maiden's advice	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	lose	would · perfect · passive		maiden			certainly property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	begin	past	maiden not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	put	to-infinitive	maiden not said here	advice	practice			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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