The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 43

The princess had of course heard of the holy man and of his miracles and his fasting, and she was filled with curiosity to see and to speak to him; but this was difficult, since she was not allowed to go out except into the palace grounds, and then was always closely guarded.

Who acts: princess, this, rajah · What happens: have, hear, fill, see, speak, be · To what, where: course, princess, rajah · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, this, rajah), 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 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 course	case
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 course	acl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 man	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 miracles	cc
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 miracles	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 miracles	nmod:poss
14	miracles	miracle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 man	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fasting	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 fasting	nmod:poss
17	fasting	fasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 miracles	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 filled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 filled	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 filled	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 filled	aux:pass
22	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 curiosity	case
24	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 filled	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 see	mark
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 filled	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 speak	cc
28	to	to	PART	_	29 speak	mark
29	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 see	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 speak	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 difficult	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 difficult	cc
34	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 difficult	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 difficult	cop
36	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 allowed	punct
38	since	since	SCONJ	_	42 allowed	mark
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 allowed	nsubj:pass
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 allowed	aux:pass
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 allowed	advmod
42	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	parataxis
43	to	to	PART	_	44 go	mark
44	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 allowed	xcomp
45	out	out	ADV	_	44 go	advmod
46	except	except	ADP	_	50 grounds	case
47	into	into	ADP	_	50 grounds	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 grounds	det
49	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 grounds	compound
50	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	44 go	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 guarded	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 guarded	cc
53	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	57 guarded	advmod
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 guarded	aux:pass
55	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	57 guarded	advmod
56	closely	closely	ADV	_	57 guarded	advmod
57	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 allowed	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the princess				of course	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hear	participle		course not said here			of the holy man and rajah's miracles and rajah's fasting	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of man=Stimulus
3	fill	past · passive		princess			with curiosity	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with curiosity=Instrument
4	see	to-infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	speak speech: other	to-infinitive			rajah			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
6	is	past	this				difficult property	tree rules
7	not allow	past · passive		princess				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
8	go out not said to happen	to-infinitive	princess not said here				except the palace grounds; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	guard	past · passive				then	always, closely property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»
10	fast		rajah					nom fasting «act intransitive»: 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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