The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 28

They had but very little sleep; the Princess had no occasion, and the Prince left her next morning to return into the city, where his father must needs have been anxious on his account.

Who acts: ladies, Princess, Prince, father · What happens: have, leave, return, be, account · To what, where: occasion, city, account

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, Princess, Prince, father), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 sleep	cc
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 little	advmod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sleep	amod
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 occasion	det
12	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 left	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 left	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Prince	det
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 left	nsubj
17	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	conj
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 morning	nmod:poss
19	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 morning	amod
20	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 left	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 return	mark
22	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 left	advcl
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 city	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 city	det
25	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 return	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 anxious	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 anxious	advmod
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 anxious	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 anxious	aux
31	needs	need	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 anxious	nsubj
32	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 anxious	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 anxious	cop
34	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 city	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 account	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 account	nmod:poss
37	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 anxious	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	ladies = lady					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	the Princess	no occasion				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occasion=Patient
3	leave	past	the Prince			morning		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	return	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here		the city			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into city=Initial_Location
5	is	must · perfect	Prince's father		Prince's account		anxious property	tree rules
6	account		Prince					nom account «communication 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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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