The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 47

Her father was in despair, and had had pictures painted of the handsomest princes of all the courts in the world, in the hope that she might fall in love with one of them; but it was no use; the princess would not even allow the pictures to be brought into her room.

Who acts: father, despair, body, love, princess · What happens: be, have, paint, fall, not allow, bring · To what, where: despair, pictures, hope, love, use, room

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, despair, body, love), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 despair	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 despair	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 despair	case
5	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	aux
9	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 despair	acl:relcl
10	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
11	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 pictures	acl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 princes	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princes	det
14	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 princes	amod
15	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 painted	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 courts	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 courts	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 courts	det
19	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 princes	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 world	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 world	det
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 courts	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hope	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 hope	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hope	det
26	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 fall	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fall	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 fall	aux
30	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 hope	acl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 love	case
32	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fall	obl
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 one	case
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 fall	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 one	nmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 use	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 use	cc
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 use	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 use	cop
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 use	det
42	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	conj
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 allow	punct
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 princess	det
45	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 allow	nsubj
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 allow	aux
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 allow	advmod
48	even	even	ADV	_	49 allow	advmod
49	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 despair	parataxis
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 pictures	det
51	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 allow	obj
52	to	to	PART	_	54 brought	mark
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 brought	aux:pass
54	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 allow	advcl
55	into	into	ADP	_	57 room	case
56	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 room	nmod:poss
57	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 brought	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 despair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	body's father		despair		tree rules
2	have	past · perfect	despair not said here	pictures	the hope		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient
3	paint	participle		pictures not said here		of the handsomest princes of all courts in the world	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall	might	body	the hope not said here	love	with one of courts	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hope=Result
5	is a	past	love	no use			tree rules
6	not allow	would	the princess	the pictures			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Beneficiary
7	bring	to-infinitive · passive	the princess not said here		body's room		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into room=Destination

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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