The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 55

The prince let himself be persuaded to go with the nurse, but when the princess questioned him as to who he was and how he had got into her garden, he behaved like a man out of his mind—sometimes smiling, sometimes crying, and saying: “I am hungry,” Or words misplaced and random, civil mixed with the rude.

Who acts: prince, princess · What happens: let, persuade, go, question, be, behave · To what, where: prince, garden, mind, hungry words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, princess), 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	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 persuaded	punct
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 let	obj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 persuaded	aux:pass
6	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 persuaded	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 nurse	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nurse	det
11	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 questioned	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 questioned	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 questioned	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 princess	det
16	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 questioned	nsubj
17	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 persuaded	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 questioned	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 who	mark
20	to	to	ADP	_	19 as	fixed
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 questioned	advcl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 got	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 got	cop
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 got	cc
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 got	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 got	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 got	aux
28	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 who	acl:relcl
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 garden	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 garden	nmod:poss
31	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 got	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 behaved	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 behaved	nsubj
34	behaved	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 got	conj
35	like	like	ADP	_	37 man	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 man	det
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 behaved	obl
38	out	out	ADP	_	41 mind	case
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 mind	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 mind	nmod:poss
41	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 behaved	obl
42	—	-	PUNCT	_	44 smiling	punct
43	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	44 smiling	advmod
44	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 behaved	advcl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 crying	punct
46	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	47 crying	advmod
47	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 smiling	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 saying	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 saying	cc
50	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 smiling	conj
51	:	:	PUNCT	_	55 hungry	punct
52	“	"	PUNCT	_	55 hungry	punct
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 hungry	nsubj
54	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 hungry	cop
55	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 words	amod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 hungry	punct
57	”	"	PUNCT	_	55 hungry	punct
58	Or	or	CCONJ	_	59 words	cc
59	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 saying	obj
60	misplaced	misplace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 words	acl
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 random	cc
62	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 misplaced	conj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 mixed	punct
64	civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 mixed	amod
65	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 words	acl
66	with	with	ADP	_	68 rude	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 rude	det
68	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 mixed	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	the prince	prince				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	persuade	infinitive · passive						vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
3	go	to-infinitive					with the nurse	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with nurse=Beneficiary
4	question speech: other	past	the princess		prince			vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	is	past · perfect	prince			princess's garden	get property	tree rules
6	behave	past	prince			prince's mind	like a man	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like man=Attribute
7	smile	gerund	prince not said here				sometimes property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	cry speech: express	gerund	prince not said here				sometimes property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	say speech: assert	gerund	prince not said here	hungry words				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
10	is in a quote	present	prince				hungry property	tree rules
11	misplace	participle		hungry words not said here				tree rules
12	mix	participle		hungry words not said here			with the rude	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with rude=Co-Patient
13	mind		prince					nom mind «cognition 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 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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