The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 41
On the third night the King’s son thought he really might feel safe, so he went to bed.
Who acts: son · What happens: think, feel, go · To what, where: bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 night | amod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 King | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 feel | nsubj |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 13 feel | advmod |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 feel | aux |
| 13 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feel | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 bed | case |
| 20 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the King's son | night | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | might | son | safe property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | past | son | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location |
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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