The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 31

The Prince, however, thought it would suit him better to land where he was, so as to avoid the town, since he had no money left and was very doubtful as to what he should do next.

Who acts: Prince, land · What happens: think, suit, land, be, avoid, have · To what, where: Prince, town, money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (Prince, land), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Prince	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 thought	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 suit	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 suit	aux
9	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thought	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 suit	obj
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 suit	xcomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 land	mark
13	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 better	advcl
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 was	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 was	nsubj
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 land	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 avoid	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 avoid	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 avoid	mark
20	to	to	PART	_	21 avoid	mark
21	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 suit	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 town	det
23	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 avoid	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
25	since	since	SCONJ	_	27 had	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 avoid	parataxis
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 money	det
29	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 money	acl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 doubtful	cc
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 doubtful	cop
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 doubtful	advmod
34	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 had	conj
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 do	mark
36	to	to	ADP	_	35 as	fixed
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	40 do	obj
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 do	nsubj
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 do	aux
40	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 doubtful	advcl
41	next	next	ADV	_	40 do	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Prince		however property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	suit	would	land	Prince	good property	tree rules
3	land	to-infinitive	land not said here			tree rules
4	be	past	Prince			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	avoid	to-infinitive	land not said here	the town		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent town=Location
6	have	past	Prince	no money		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
7	leave	participle		no money not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	past	Prince not said here		doubtful property	tree rules
9	do	should	Prince		next property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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