The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 19

By this time he was somewhat alarmed, and did his best to put the ship about and get back to the river, but wind and tide were too strong for him, and he began to think of the number of times, from his childhood up, that he had been warned not to meddle with water.

Who acts: wind, Prince · What happens: alarm, do, put, get back, be, begin · To what, where: Prince, best, ship, childhood · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wind, Prince), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 alarmed	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 alarmed	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 alarmed	aux:pass
6	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	7 alarmed	advmod
7	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 did	cc
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 alarmed	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 best	nmod:poss
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 did	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 put	mark
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 did	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ship	det
16	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obj
17	about	about	ADV	_	14 put	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 get	cc
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 put	conj
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 get	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 river	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 river	det
23	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 back	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 strong	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 strong	cc
26	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 strong	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tide	cc
28	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wind	conj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 strong	cop
30	too	too	ADV	_	31 strong	advmod
31	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 did	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 strong	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 began	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 began	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 began	nsubj
37	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 alarmed	parataxis
38	to	to	PART	_	39 think	mark
39	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 began	xcomp
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 number	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 number	det
42	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 think	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 times	case
44	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 number	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 childhood	punct
46	from	from	ADP	_	48 childhood	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 childhood	nmod:poss
48	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 think	obl
49	up	up	ADP	_	48 childhood	compound:prt
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 warned	punct
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 warned	mark
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 warned	nsubj:pass
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 warned	aux
54	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	55 warned	aux:pass
55	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 began	conj
56	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	58 meddle	advmod
57	to	to	PART	_	58 meddle	mark
58	meddle	meddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 warned	ccomp
59	with	with	ADP	_	60 water	case
60	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 meddle	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 alarmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	alarm	past · passive		Prince		time	somewhat property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	do	past		Prince's best				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
3	put	to-infinitive		the ship			about property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ship=Goal
4	get back	infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	wind and tide				for Prince; strong property	tree rules
6	begin	past	Prince					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Prince not said here		Prince's childhood		of the number of times	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	warn speech: warn	past · perfect · passive		Prince				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
9	not meddle	to-infinitive					with water	tree rules

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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