The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 9

The Prince guessed easily that he had fallen on a witch’s house, but as by this time it was quite dark and he could go no further, and as moreover he was not at all afraid, he stepped in.

Who acts: Prince, house · What happens: guess, fall, be, go, not be, step in · To what, where: house

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 (Prince, house), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 guessed	nsubj
3	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 guessed	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 fallen	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fallen	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fallen	aux
8	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 guessed	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 house	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 witch	det
11	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 witch	case
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fallen	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dark	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 dark	cc
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 by	advmod
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 time	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dark	obl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 dark	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dark	cop
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 dark	advmod
23	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 guessed	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 go	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 dark	conj
28	no	no	ADV	_	29 further	advmod
29	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 go	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 afraid	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 afraid	cc
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 moreover	case
33	moreover	moreover	ADV	_	39 afraid	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 afraid	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 afraid	cop
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 afraid	advmod
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 afraid	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 afraid	det
39	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 guessed	parataxis
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 stepped	punct
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 stepped	nsubj
42	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 afraid	conj
43	in	in	ADP	_	42 stepped	compound:prt
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 guessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past	the Prince			easily property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	fall	past · perfect	Prince	a witch's house			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on house=Location
3	is	past	house		time	dark property	tree rules
4	go	could	Prince			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not is	past	Prince			afraid property	tree rules
6	step in	past	Prince				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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