The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 11

He actually reflected for about five seconds on his folly, and came to the conclusion that it might sometimes be advisable to think before one acted.

Who acts: Prince, it, one · What happens: reflect, come, be, think, act · To what, where: conclusion

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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, it, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reflected	nsubj
2	actually	actually	ADV	_	3 reflected	advmod
3	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 seconds	case
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 five	advmod
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 seconds	nummod
7	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reflected	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 folly	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 folly	nmod:poss
10	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reflected	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reflected	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 conclusion	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 conclusion	det
16	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 advisable	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 advisable	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 advisable	aux
20	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 advisable	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 advisable	cop
22	advisable	advisable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 came	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 think	mark
24	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 advisable	csubj
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 acted	mark
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 acted	nsubj
27	acted	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 think	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reflected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	reflect	past	Prince		second	on Prince's folly; actually property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on folly=Topic
2	come	past		the conclusion			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial_Location
3	is	might	it			advisable, sometimes property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	act	past	one				vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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