The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 62

At one moment she felt he had already bestowed so much upon her that it was a shame to ask for the only object he had kept back.

Who acts: princess, stone, only object · What happens: feel, bestow, be, ask, keep back · To what, where: shame, stone

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, stone, only object), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 moment	nummod
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 felt	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 felt	nsubj
5	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bestowed	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bestowed	aux
8	already	already	ADV	_	9 bestowed	advmod
9	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 felt	ccomp
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADV	_	9 bestowed	advmod
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bestowed	obl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 shame	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shame	expl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 shame	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 shame	det
18	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bestowed	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 ask	mark
20	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 bestowed	advcl
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 object	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 object	det
23	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 object	amod
24	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ask	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 kept	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 kept	aux
27	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 object	acl:relcl
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 kept	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	princess		moment		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	bestow	past · perfect	stone			upon princess	tree rules
3	is a	past	stone not said here	a shame			tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	stone not said here			for the only object	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	keep back	past · perfect · passive	the only object not said here	stone			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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