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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 11

It happened that at this very time a little daughter was born to the king’s son, but in his distress for his friend he had hardly a thought to spare for the baby.

Who acts: It, son · What happens: happen, bear, have, spare, distress · To what, where: little daughter, thought, distress

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, 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

nsubjmarkcasedetadvmodobldetamodnsubj:passaux:passadvclcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctcccasenmod:possoblcasenmod:possnmodnsubjparataxisadvmoddetobjmarkadvclcasedetoblpunctrootItPRONhappenedVERBthatSCONJatADPthisDETveryADVtimeNOUNaDETlittleADJdaughterNOUNwasAUXbornVERBtoADPtheDETkingNOUN’sPARTsonNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJinADPhisPRONdistressNOUNforADPhisPRONfriendNOUNhePRONhadVERBhardlyADVaDETthoughtNOUNtoPARTspareVERBforADPtheDETbabyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 happenednsubj
2happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thatthatSCONJ_12 bornmark
4atatADP_7 timecase
5thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem7 timedet
6veryveryADV_7 timeadvmod
7timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing12 bornobl
8aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 daughterdet
9littlelittleADJDegree=Pos10 daughteramod
10daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing12 bornnsubj:pass
11wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 bornaux:pass
12bornbearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 happenedadvcl
13totoADP_17 soncase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 kingdet
15kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing17 sonnmod:poss
16’s'sPART_15 kingcase
17sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing12 bornobl
18,,PUNCT_27 hadpunct
19butbutCCONJ_27 hadcc
20ininADP_22 distresscase
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 distressnmod:poss
22distressdistressNOUNNumber=Sing27 hadobl
23forforADP_25 friendcase
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 friendnmod:poss
25friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing22 distressnmod
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 hadnsubj
27hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 happenedparataxis
28hardlyhardlyADV_30 thoughtadvmod
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art30 thoughtdet
30thoughtthoughtNOUNNumber=Sing27 hadobj
31totoPART_32 sparemark
32sparespareVERBVerbForm=Inf27 hadadvcl
33forforADP_35 babycase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 babydet
35babybabyNOUNNumber=Sing32 spareobl
36..PUNCT_2 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpastItvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2bearpast · passivea little daughtertimeto the king's sonvn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3havepastsona thoughtson's distress for son's friendvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient
4spareto-infinitiveson not said herefor the babyvn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent
5distresssonfor son's friendnom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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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