The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 36

He made a very good king and never expected his people to wish him well against their wills; but, all the same, everyone did wish him well, for they all loved him.

Who acts: king, people, everyone · What happens: make, not expect, wish, love, will · To what, where: good king, people, king

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, people, everyone), 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 king	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 good	advmod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 king	amod
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 expected	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 expected	advmod
9	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 people	nmod:poss
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 expected	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 wish	mark
13	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 expected	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wish	iobj
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 wish	advmod
16	against	against	ADP	_	18 wills	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wills	nmod:poss
18	wills	will	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wish	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 same	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 same	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 but	punct
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 same	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 same	det
24	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wish	punct
26	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	28 wish	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 wish	aux
28	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 same	parataxis
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wish	iobj
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 wish	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 loved	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 loved	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 loved	nsubj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 loved	advmod
35	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 wish	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 loved	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	king	a good king			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Product
2	not expect	past	king not said here	king's people			tree rules
3	wish not said to happen	to-infinitive	king's people not said here		king	against people's wills; well property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
4	wish	past · do-support	everyone		king	well property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
5	love	past	people	king			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	will		people				nom will «cognition transitive»: 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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