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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 27

The king had no great desire to undertake this journey, but the queen’s will was stronger than his, and he was too lazy to make a fight for it.

Who acts: king · What happens: have, undertake, be, make · To what, where: great desire, journey, fight

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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

detnsubjdetamodobjmarkacldetobjpunctccdetnmod:posscaseauxcopparataxiscaseadvclpunctccnsubjauxadvmodparataxismarkadvcldetobjcaseoblpunctrootTheDETkingNOUNhadVERBnoDETgreatADJdesireNOUNtoPARTundertakeVERBthisDETjourneyNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJtheDETqueenNOUN’sPARTwillAUXwasAUXstrongerADJthanADPhisPRON,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONwasAUXtooADVlazyADJtoPARTmakeVERBaDETfightNOUNforADPitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 kingdet
2kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing3 hadnsubj
3hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4nonoDETPronType=Neg6 desiredet
5greatgreatADJDegree=Pos6 desireamod
6desiredesireNOUNNumber=Sing3 hadobj
7totoPART_8 undertakemark
8undertakeundertakeVERBVerbForm=Inf6 desireacl
9thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem10 journeydet
10journeyjourneyNOUNNumber=Sing8 undertakeobj
11,,PUNCT_18 strongerpunct
12butbutCCONJ_18 strongercc
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 queendet
14queenqueenNOUNNumber=Sing18 strongernmod:poss
15’s'sPART_14 queencase
16willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin18 strongeraux
17wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 strongercop
18strongerstrongADJDegree=Cmp3 hadparataxis
19thanthanADP_20 hiscase
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 strongeradvcl
21,,PUNCT_26 lazypunct
22andandCCONJ_26 lazycc
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 lazynsubj
24wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 lazyaux
25tootooADV_26 lazyadvmod
26lazylazyADJDegree=Pos3 hadparataxis
27totoPART_28 makemark
28makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf26 lazyadvcl
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art30 fightdet
30fightfightNOUNNumber=Sing28 makeobj
31forforADP_32 itcase
32ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 makeobl
33..PUNCT_3 hadpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepastthe kingno great desirevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient
2undertaketo-infinitivethe king not said herethis journeyvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality
3isfuturestrong propertytree rules
4maketo-infinitivethe king not said herea fightfor fightvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent fight=Product for it=Asset

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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