The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 55

He began to make comparisons between the prince and himself, and was obliged to confess that he was a fine-looking young man with very good manners and a pleasant expression.

Who acts: friend · What happens: begin, make, oblige, confess, look, be · To what, where: comparisons, looking young man

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	comparisons	comparison	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
6	between	between	ADP	_	8 prince	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comparisons	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 himself	cc
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 prince	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 obliged	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 obliged	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 obliged	aux:pass
14	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 began	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 confess	mark
16	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 obliged	xcomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 man	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 man	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 man	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 man	det
21	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 looking	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 fine	punct
23	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 man	amod
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 confess	ccomp
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 manners	case
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 good	advmod
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 manners	amod
29	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	25 man	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 expression	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 expression	det
32	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 expression	amod
33	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 man	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	friend			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make	to-infinitive	friend not said here	comparisons	between the prince	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset comparison=Product
3	oblige	past · passive	friend not said here			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
4	confess	to-infinitive	friend not said here			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	look	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	is a	past	friend	a looking young man and a pleasant expression	with good manners	tree rules

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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