The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 60

Now you would have thought that by this time the king would have been satisfied with the prince, and would have left him alone; but people’s natures are very hard to change, and when the two envious soldiers came to him with a new falsehood, he was as ready to listen to them as before.

Who acts: you, natures, two envious soldiers, king · What happens: think, satisfy, leave, be, change, come · To what, where: that, king, soldiers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, natures, two envious soldiers, king), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 thought	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 thought	aux
5	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 thought	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 satisfied	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 satisfied	nsubj:pass
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 satisfied	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 satisfied	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 satisfied	aux:pass
15	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 thought	ccomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 prince	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 prince	det
18	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 satisfied	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 left	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 left	cc
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 left	aux
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 left	aux
23	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 satisfied	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 left	obj
25	alone	alone	ADV	_	23 left	advmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 hard	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 hard	cc
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 natures	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 people	case
30	natures	nature	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 hard	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 hard	cop
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 hard	advmod
33	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thought	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 change	mark
35	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 hard	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 ready	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 ready	cc
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	43 came	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 soldiers	det
40	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 soldiers	nummod
41	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 soldiers	amod
42	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 came	nsubj
43	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 ready	advcl
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 came	obl
46	with	with	ADP	_	49 falsehood	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 falsehood	det
48	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 falsehood	amod
49	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 came	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 came	punct
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 ready	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 ready	cop
53	as	as	ADP	_	54 ready	case
54	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 hard	conj
55	to	to	PART	_	56 listen	mark
56	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 ready	xcomp
57	to	to	ADP	_	58 them	case
58	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 listen	obl
59	as	as	ADV	_	60 before	advmod
60	before	before	ADV	_	56 listen	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would · perfect	you	that		now		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute clause=Theme
2	satisfy	would · perfect · passive		the king		time	with the prince	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme with prince=Instrument
3	leave	would · perfect		king			alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	is	present	people's natures				hard property	tree rules
5	change	to-infinitive	people's natures not said here					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come	past	the two envious soldiers		king		with a new falsehood	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
7	is	past	king				ready property	tree rules
8	listen	to-infinitive	king not said here		soldiers = soldier		before property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=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 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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