The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 25

The king and queen were very anxious to bring their children up well, and the young prince and princess were taught everything likely to make them clever and accomplished.

Who acts: king · What happens: be, bring up, teach, make, accomplish · To what, where: children, young prince

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 anxious	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 queen	cc
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 king	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 anxious	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 anxious	advmod
7	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 bring	mark
9	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 anxious	xcomp
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 children	nmod:poss
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bring	obj
12	up	up	ADV	_	9 bring	compound:prt
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 bring	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 taught	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 taught	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 prince	det
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 prince	amod
18	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 taught	nsubj:pass
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 princess	cc
20	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 prince	conj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 taught	aux:pass
22	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 anxious	parataxis
23	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 taught	obj
24	likely	likely	ADV	_	22 taught	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 make	mark
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 taught	advcl
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 make	obj
28	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 make	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 accomplished	cc
30	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 clever	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 anxious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king and queen		anxious property	tree rules
2	bring up	to-infinitive	the king and queen not said here	Asmund's children	well property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	teach speech: other	past · passive		the young prince and princess	likely property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient everything=Topic
4	make	to-infinitive		children = child	clever property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
5	accomplish	participle				vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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