The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 16

He looked round still for something to wish for, and when he saw that in spite of the water he poured on his grass the rays of the sun scorched it, and that in spite of the umbrella held over his head each day his face grew browner and browner, he cried in his anger: “The sun is mightier than I; oh, if I were only the sun!”

Who acts: prince, rays, face, sun · What happens: look round, wish, see, pour, scorch, hold · To what, where: something, spite, heart, umbrella, head, anger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, rays, face, sun), 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	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 something	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 something	case
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 looked	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 wish	mark
8	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 something	acl
9	for	for	ADP	_	8 wish	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 saw	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 poured	mark
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 spite	case
17	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 poured	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 water	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spite	nmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 poured	nsubj
22	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	advcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 grass	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 grass	nmod:poss
25	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 poured	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rays	det
27	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 scorched	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 sun	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sun	det
30	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rays	nmod
31	scorched	scorch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 poured	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 scorched	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 grew	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 grew	cc
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 grew	mark
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 spite	case
37	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 grew	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 umbrella	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 umbrella	det
40	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 spite	nmod
41	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 umbrella	acl
42	over	over	ADP	_	44 head	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 head	nmod:poss
44	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 held	obl
45	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	46 day	det
46	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 held	obl:unmarked
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 face	nmod:poss
48	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 grew	nsubj
49	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
50	browner	brown	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	49 grew	xcomp
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 browner	cc
52	browner	brown	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	50 browner	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 cried	punct
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 cried	nsubj
55	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 grew	conj
56	in	in	ADP	_	58 anger	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 anger	nmod:poss
58	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 cried	obl
59	:	:	PUNCT	_	64 mightier	punct
60	“	"	PUNCT	_	64 mightier	punct
61	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 sun	det
62	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 mightier	nsubj
63	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 mightier	cop
64	mightier	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	55 cried	conj
65	than	than	ADP	_	66 I	case
66	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	64 mightier	obl
67	;	;	PUNCT	_	75 sun	punct
68	oh	oh	INTJ	_	75 sun	discourse
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 oh	punct
70	if	if	SCONJ	_	75 sun	mark
71	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	75 sun	nsubj
72	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	75 sun	cop
73	only	only	ADV	_	75 sun	advmod
74	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	75 sun	det
75	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	parataxis
76	!	!	PUNCT	_	75 sun	punct
77	”	"	PUNCT	_	75 sun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look round	past	prince	something			round property	tree rules
2	wish	to-infinitive	prince not said here	something not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	see	past	prince					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	pour	past	prince		spite of the water		on prince's grass	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
5	scorch	past	the rays of the sun	heart				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	hold	participle		the umbrella not said here	prince's head	day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Location
7	grow	past	prince's face		spite of the umbrella		brown property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spite=Location
8	cry speech: express	past	prince		prince's anger			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in anger=Location
9	is in a quote	present	the sun				than prince; mighty property	tree rules
10	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	prince	the sun				tree rules
11	spite			the water				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
12	ray			the sun				nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
13	spite			the umbrella				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
14	anger		prince					nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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 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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