The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 127

The king would have preferred his choosing a friend from the pages who were brought up at court; but the prince would have nothing to say to them, and as he was a spoilt child, and allowed his way in all things, and the gardener’s boy was quiet and well-behaved, he was suffered to be in the palace, morning, noon, and night.

Who acts: king, prince, boy · What happens: prefer, choose, bring up, have, say, be · To what, where: king, friend, pages, court, nothing, spoilt child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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, prince, boy), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 preferred	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 preferred	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 preferred	aux
5	preferred	prefer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 choosing	nsubj
7	choosing	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 preferred	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 friend	det
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 choosing	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 pages	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pages	det
12	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 choosing	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 brought	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 brought	aux:pass
15	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 pages	acl:relcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 brought	compound:prt
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 court	case
18	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brought	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 prince	det
22	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 preferred	parataxis
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 have	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 say	mark
27	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 nothing	acl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 say	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 child	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 child	cc
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 child	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 child	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 child	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 child	det
36	spoilt	spoilt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 child	amod
37	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 allowed	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 allowed	cc
40	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 have	conj
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 way	nmod:poss
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 allowed	obj
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 things	case
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 things	det
45	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 allowed	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 quiet	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 quiet	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 gardener	det
49	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 boy	nmod:poss
50	’s	's	PART	_	49 gardener	case
51	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 quiet	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 quiet	cop
53	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 have	parataxis
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 behaved	cc
55	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	57 behaved	advmod
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 well	punct
57	behaved	behave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 quiet	conj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 suffered	punct
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 suffered	nsubj
60	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 suffered	aux:pass
61	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 quiet	conj
62	to	to	PART	_	66 palace	mark
63	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	66 palace	cop
64	in	in	ADP	_	66 palace	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 palace	det
66	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 suffered	advcl
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 morning	punct
68	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 palace	conj
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 noon	punct
70	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 palace	conj
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 night	punct
72	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 night	cc
73	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 palace	conj
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 preferred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	prefer	would · perfect · passive		the king				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	choose	gerund	king	a friend		the pages		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent friend=Theme from page=Source
3	bring up	past · passive		the pages		court		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	have	would	the prince	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	nothing not said here	pages = page			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
6	is a	past	prince	a spoilt child				tree rules
7	allow	past	the prince not said here	prince's way		all things		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Beneficiary
8	is	past	the gardener's boy				quiet property	tree rules
9	behave	participle	the gardener's boy not said here				well property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
10	suffer	past · passive		prince				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
11	is	to-infinitive				the palace and morning and noon and night		tree rules

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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