The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 143

One of the few faults of this lovely princess was a devouring curiosity, and she lived such an idle life that she had plenty of time to be curious.

Who acts: One, princess · What happens: devour, be, live, have, fault · To what, where: devouring curiosity, idle life, plenty, lovely princess

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 curiosity	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 faults	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 faults	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 faults	amod
5	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 princess	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 princess	det
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 princess	amod
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 faults	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 curiosity	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 curiosity	det
12	devouring	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 curiosity	amod
13	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lived	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lived	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lived	nsubj
17	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 curiosity	acl:relcl
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 life	det:predet
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 life	det
20	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 life	amod
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lived	obj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 had	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lived	advcl
25	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 time	case
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 plenty	nmod
28	to	to	PART	_	30 curious	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 curious	cop
30	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 time	acl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 curiosity	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	devour	gerund				vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	One of the few faults of this lovely princess	a devouring curiosity		tree rules
3	live	past	princess	such idle life		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location
4	have	past	princess	plenty of time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
5	is	to-infinitive	princess not said here		curious property	tree rules
6	fault			this lovely princess		nom fault «act 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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