The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 11

He was young, and gay, and handsome, and knew everything that a prince ought to know; and as for his courage, there was simply no end to it.

Who acts: two, prince, end · What happens: be, know · To what, where: everything

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, prince, end), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 young	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 young	cop
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gay	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gay	cc
6	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 young	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 handsome	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 handsome	cc
9	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 young	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 knew	cc
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 young	parataxis
13	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 knew	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 know	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 prince	det
16	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 know	nsubj
17	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
18	to	to	PART	_	19 know	mark
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 everything	acl:relcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 was	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 was	cc
22	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	25 courage	case
23	for	for	ADP	_	22 as	fixed
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 courage	nmod:poss
25	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 was	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 courage	punct
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 young	parataxis
29	simply	simply	ADV	_	31 end	advmod
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 end	det
31	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 was	nsubj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 end	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 young	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	two			young property	tree rules
2	be		two not said here				tree rules
3	be		two not said here				tree rules
4	know	past		everything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
5	know	ought	a prince	everything not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
6	be	past	no end to courage		there	as two's courage	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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