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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 26

The fame of the princess’s beauty had spread far and wide, and there was no lack of princes who wished to try their fortune.

Who acts: lack, princes · What happens: spread, be, wish, try, lack · To what, where: fame, fortune, princes

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lack, princes), 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

detnsubj:passcasedetnmod:posscasenmodauxadvmodccconjpunctccexplparataxisdetnsubjcasenmodnsubjacl:relclmarkxcompnmod:possobjpunctrootTheDETfameNOUNofADPtheDETprincessNOUN’sPARTbeautyNOUNhadAUXspreadVERBfarADVandCCONJwideADJ,PUNCTandCCONJtherePRONwasVERBnoDETlackNOUNofADPprincesNOUNwhoPRONwishedVERBtoPARTtryVERBtheirPRONfortuneNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 famedet
2famefameNOUNNumber=Sing9 spreadnsubj:pass
3ofofADP_7 beautycase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 princessdet
5princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing7 beautynmod:poss
6’s'sPART_5 princesscase
7beautybeautyNOUNNumber=Sing2 famenmod
8hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 spreadaux
9spreadspreadVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
10farfarADVDegree=Pos9 spreadadvmod
11andandCCONJ_12 widecc
12widewideADJDegree=Pos10 farconj
13,,PUNCT_16 waspunct
14andandCCONJ_16 wascc
15theretherePRONPronType=Dem16 wasexpl
16wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 spreadparataxis
17nonoDETPronType=Neg18 lackdet
18lacklackNOUNNumber=Sing16 wasnsubj
19ofofADP_20 princescase
20princesprinceNOUNNumber=Plur18 lacknmod
21whowhoPRONPronType=Rel22 wishednsubj
22wishedwishVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 princesacl:relcl
23totoPART_24 trymark
24trytryVERBVerbForm=Inf22 wishedxcomp
25theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 fortunenmod:poss
26fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing24 tryobj
27..PUNCT_9 spreadpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1spreadpast · perfect · passivethe fame of the princess's beautyfar propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2bepastno lack of princestherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3wishpastprincesvn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4try not said to happento-infinitiveprinces not said herewindows's fortunevn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Eventuality
5lackprincesnom lack «state transitive»: of=patient

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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