The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 26

After what seemed to him a very long time, he found himself all alone in a vast forest, so dark and gloomy that he secretly shuddered; however, he chose the most promising looking path he could find, and marched along it courageously at his best speed, but in spite of all his efforts, night fell before he reached the edge of the wood.

Who acts: Prince, night · What happens: seem, find, shudder, choose, promise, look · To what, where: Prince, vast forest, path, best speed, spite, edge

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (Prince, night), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	3 seemed	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seemed	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 found	obj
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 alone	advmod
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 found	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 forest	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 forest	det
18	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 forest	amod
19	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dark	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 dark	advmod
22	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 found	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 gloomy	cc
24	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dark	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 shuddered	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 shuddered	nsubj
27	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	28 shuddered	advmod
28	shuddered	shudder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 gloomy	advcl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 chose	punct
30	however	however	ADV	_	33 chose	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 however	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 chose	nsubj
33	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 promising	det
35	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	36 promising	advmod
36	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 chose	advcl
37	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 promising	xcomp
38	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 looking	obj
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 find	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 find	aux
41	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 path	acl:relcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 marched	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 marched	cc
44	marched	march	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 found	conj
45	along	along	ADP	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 marched	obl
47	courageously	courageously	ADV	_	44 marched	advmod
48	at	at	ADP	_	51 speed	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 speed	nmod:poss
50	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	51 speed	amod
51	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 marched	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 fell	punct
53	but	but	CCONJ	_	62 fell	cc
54	in	in	ADP	_	55 spite	case
55	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 fell	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	59 efforts	case
57	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	59 efforts	det:predet
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 efforts	nmod:poss
59	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 spite	nmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 spite	punct
61	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 fell	nsubj
62	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	conj
63	before	before	SCONJ	_	65 reached	mark
64	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 reached	nsubj
65	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 fell	advcl
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 edge	det
67	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 reached	obj
68	of	of	ADP	_	70 wood	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 wood	det
70	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 edge	nmod
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past			Prince		time		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	Prince	Prince		a vast forest		alone property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	shudder	past	Prince					secretly property	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	choose	past	Prince					however property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	promise speech: promise	gerund	Prince not said here						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	look not said to happen	gerund	Prince not said here	path					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme path=Attribute
7	find	could	Prince	path not said here					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Topic
8	march	participle	Prince not said here			Prince's best speed		along path; courageously property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along it=Trajectory
9	fall	past	night			spite of Prince's efforts			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in spite=Location
10	reach	past	Prince	the edge of the wood					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent edge=Theme
11	spite			Prince's efforts					nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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