The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 78

For almost fifteen years the fairies had taken care of her, and amused her and taught her, so that when she came into the world she might be no whit behind the daughters of other kings in all that makes a princess charming and accomplished.

Who acts: princess, other kings · What happens: take, amuse, teach, come, be, make · To what, where: fairies, princess, whit, world, princess charming

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, other kings), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	almost	almost	ADV	_	3 fifteen	advmod
3	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 taken	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fairies	det
6	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 taken	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 taken	aux
8	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taken	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 care	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 amused	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 amused	cc
14	amused	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 taken	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 amused	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 taught	cc
17	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 amused	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 taught	iobj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 came	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 came	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 amused	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 world	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 world	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 whit	obl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 whit	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 whit	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 whit	cop
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 whit	det
32	whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	parataxis
33	behind	behind	ADP	_	35 daughters	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 daughters	det
35	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 whit	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 kings	case
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 kings	amod
38	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 daughters	nmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 all	case
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 kings	conj
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 makes	nsubj
42	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 kings	acl:relcl
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 charming	det
44	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 charming	compound
45	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 makes	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 accomplished	cc
47	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 makes	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect · passive		the fairies			year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme care=Destination
2	amuse	past		princess					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
3	teach speech: other	past			princess				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	come	past	princess						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	might	princess	no whit		the world		behind the daughters of other kings	tree rules
6	make	present	other kings	a princess charming					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset charming=Product
7	accomplish	past	other kings not said here						vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
8	care		princess						nom care «act intransitive»: of=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 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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