The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 95

By this time the king had forgotten all about the princess, whom he had only chosen to please his people, and was as eager to depart on his journey as the frog was for him to go.

Who acts: king · What happens: forget, choose, please, be, depart, go · To what, where: princess, people, journey

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forgotten	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forgotten	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 forgotten	aux
7	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	all	all	ADV	_	11 princess	advmod
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 princess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forgotten	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 chosen	punct
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 chosen	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 chosen	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 chosen	aux
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 chosen	advmod
17	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 princess	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 please	mark
19	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 chosen	advcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 people	nmod:poss
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 please	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 eager	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 eager	cc
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 eager	cop
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 eager	case
26	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 forgotten	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 depart	mark
28	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 eager	xcomp
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 journey	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 journey	nmod:poss
31	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 depart	obl
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 frog	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 frog	det
34	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 depart	obl
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 eager	cop
36	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 go	mark
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 go	nsubj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 go	mark
39	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 was	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 forgotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past · perfect	the king			time	about the princess	tree rules
2	choose	past · perfect	king	the princess				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme
3	please	to-infinitive	king not said here	king's people				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer
4	is	past	the king not said here				eager property	tree rules
5	depart	to-infinitive	the king not said here		king's journey		as the frog	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go	to-infinitive	king					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	journey		king					nom journey «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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