The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 50

‘Now that they are all in too much pain to move, we had better seize our chance and run away.

Who acts: sisters, we, our · What happens: be, move, have, seize, run away, chance · To what, where: much pain, chance

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, we, our), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 move	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 move	advmod
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 move	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 move	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pain	cop
6	all	all	ADV	_	10 pain	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 pain	case
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pain	amod
10	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 they	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 move	mark
12	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 move	conj
16	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 had	xcomp
17	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	xcomp
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 chance	nmod:poss
19	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seize	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 run	cc
21	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 seize	conj
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 run	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 move	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	sisters = sister not said here		much pain		all property	tree rules
2	move	to-infinitive	sisters = sister			now		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	we				good property	tree rules
4	seize	infinitive	we not said here	our chance				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Theme
5	run away	infinitive	we not said here				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	chance		our					nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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