The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 91

They even wished him to see the princess Desiree, but this was prevented by the fairy Tulip, who feared some ill might come of it.

Who acts: king, fairy, ill · What happens: wish, see, prevent, fear, come · To what, where: news, princess, this · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, fairy, ill), 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	3 wished	nsubj
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 wished	advmod
3	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wished	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wished	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 princess	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prevented	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 prevented	cc
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 prevented	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 prevented	aux:pass
14	prevented	prevent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wished	advcl
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 fairy	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fairy	det
17	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prevented	obl
18	Tulip	Tulip	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 fairy	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 feared	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 feared	nsubj
21	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fairy	acl:relcl
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 ill	det
23	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 come	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 feared	ccomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 come	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish	past	king	news		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	king not said here	the princess		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
3	prevent	past · passive	the fairy	this		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme
4	fear	past	the fairy			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	come	might	some ill		of sign	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_Location

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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