The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 52

This king had one son whom his father thought was wiser and cleverer than any son ever was before, and indeed his father had spared no pains to make him so.

Who acts: king, father, one son · What happens: have, think, be, spare, make · To what, where: one son, pains, king

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, father, one 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 son	nummod
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wiser	nsubj
6	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 thought	obj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 son	acl:relcl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wiser	cop
11	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 had	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cleverer	cc
13	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 wiser	conj
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 son	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 son	det
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cleverer	obl
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 before	advmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 before	cop
19	before	before	ADV	_	16 son	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 spared	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 spared	cc
22	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	26 spared	advmod
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spared	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 spared	aux
26	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 had	conj
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 pains	det
28	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 spared	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 make	mark
30	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 spared	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 make	obj
32	so	so	ADV	_	30 make	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	this king				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	king's father	one son			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whom=Theme
3	is	past	one son			wise property	tree rules
4	be		one son not said here			than any son	tree rules
5	is	past			ever	before property	tree rules
6	spare	past · perfect	king's father	no pains		indeed property	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent pain=Asset
7	make	to-infinitive	king's father not said here	king			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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