Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 30

The old king, her father, was very much grieved at her conduct, but he could not prevent her from being so wicked, because he once said he would have nothing more to do with her lovers; she might do as she pleased.

Who acts: king, Heaven · What happens: grieve, not prevent, be, say, have, do · To what, where: old king, conduct, Heaven, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Heaven), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 king	amod
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grieved	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 king	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 king	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 grieved	aux:pass
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 grieved	advmod
11	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 conduct	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 conduct	nmod:poss
14	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grieved	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 prevent	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 prevent	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 prevent	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 prevent	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 prevent	advmod
20	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 grieved	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 prevent	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 wicked	case
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 wicked	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 wicked	advmod
25	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 prevent	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 said	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 said	advmod
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 prevent	parataxis
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 have	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 have	aux
33	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 have	obj
35	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 nothing	amod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 do	mark
37	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 more	acl
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 lovers	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 lovers	nmod:poss
40	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 do	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 do	punct
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 do	nsubj
43	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 do	aux
44	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 grieved	conj
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 pleased	mark
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 pleased	nsubj
47	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 do	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 grieved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grieve	past · passive		the old king and Heaven's father	Heaven's conduct		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	not prevent	could	king	Heaven			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme
3	is	gerund				wicked property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	king			once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have	would	king	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
6	do	to-infinitive				with Heaven's lovers	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	do	might	Heaven				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	conduct		Heaven				nom conduct «act 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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