The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 55

The prince was very angry at the flight of the white doe, for whom he had taken so much trouble, and returning to the cottage he poured out his adventures and his wrath to Becasigue, who could not help smiling.

Who acts: prince, doe · What happens: be, take, return, pour out, not help, smile · To what, where: flight, much trouble, adventures, Becasigue

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, doe), 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	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 flight	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flight	det
8	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 angry	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 doe	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 doe	det
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 doe	amod
12	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flight	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 taken	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 whom	case
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 taken	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taken	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	aux
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 angry	conj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 trouble	amod
21	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taken	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 poured	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 poured	cc
24	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 poured	csubj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 cottage	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cottage	det
27	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 returning	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 poured	nsubj
29	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	parataxis
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 poured	compound:prt
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 adventures	nmod:poss
32	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 poured	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 wrath	cc
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 wrath	nmod:poss
35	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 adventures	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 Becasigue	case
37	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 help	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 help	punct
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 help	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 help	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 help	advmod
42	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 poured	parataxis
43	smiling	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 help	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the prince			the flight of the white doe	angry property	tree rules
2	take	past · perfect	doe	much trouble				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme for whom=Beneficiary
3	return	gerund					to the cottage result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cottage=Result
4	pour out	past	doe	doe's adventures and doe's wrath				vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient
5	not help	could			Becasigue			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	smile	gerund						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	adventure		doe					nom adventure «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: «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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