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The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 25

The Prince rose up and went sadly on his way, for he didn’t believe it possible that the little toad could really help him in his present difficulty.

Who acts: Prince, little toad · What happens: rise up, go, not believe, help · To what, where: way, Prince, present difficulty

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, little toad), 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

detnsubjcompound:prtccconjadvmodcasenmod:possoblpunctmarknsubjauxadvmodadvclobjxcompmarkdetamodnsubjauxadvmodadvclobjcasenmod:possamodoblpunctrootTheDETPrincePROPNroseVERBupADPandCCONJwentVERBsadlyADVonADPhisPRONwayNOUN,PUNCTforSCONJhePRONdidAUXn’tPARTbelieveVERBitPRONpossibleADJthatSCONJtheDETlittleADJtoadNOUNcouldAUXreallyADVhelpVERBhimPRONinADPhisPRONpresentADJdifficultyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Princedet
2PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing3 rosensubj
3roseriseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4upupADP_3 rosecompound:prt
5andandCCONJ_6 wentcc
6wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 roseconj
7sadlysadlyADV_6 wentadvmod
8ononADP_10 waycase
9hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 waynmod:poss
10waywayNOUNNumber=Sing6 wentobl
11,,PUNCT_16 believepunct
12forforSCONJ_16 believemark
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 believensubj
14diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 believeaux
15n’tnotPARTPolarity=Neg16 believeadvmod
16believebelieveVERBVerbForm=Inf6 wentadvcl
17ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 believeobj
18possiblepossibleADJDegree=Pos16 believexcomp
19thatthatSCONJ_25 helpmark
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 toaddet
21littlelittleADJDegree=Pos22 toadamod
22toadtoadNOUNNumber=Sing25 helpnsubj
23couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin25 helpaux
24reallyreallyADV_25 helpadvmod
25helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf18 possibleadvcl
26himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 helpobj
27ininADP_30 difficultycase
28hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 difficultynmod:poss
29presentpresentADJDegree=Pos30 difficultyamod
30difficultydifficultyNOUNNumber=Sing25 helpobl
31..PUNCT_3 rosepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1rise uppastthe Princevn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2gopastthe Prince not said herePrince's waysadly propertyvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
3not believepast · do-supportPrincewaypossible propertyvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4helpcouldthe little toadPrincePrince's present difficultyvn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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