The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 5

One thing, however, held him back from this step which day by day he saw more clearly was the only one possible.

Who acts: One thing, king · What happens: hold back, see, be · To what, where: king, day, only one

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One thing, king), 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 thing	nummod
2	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	nsubj:outer
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 thing	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 held	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 held	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 held	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 step	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 step	det
11	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 one	obl
12	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 step	obl:unmarked
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 day	case
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	nmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 day	acl:relcl
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 clearly	advmod
19	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	17 saw	advmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 one	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 one	det
22	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 one	amod
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	parataxis
24	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 one	amod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hold back	past	One thing	king	however property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	see	past	king	which day by day not said here	clearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer day=Stimulus
3	is a	past		the only one	from this step	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 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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