The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 7

The three Princes were greatly surprised by their father’s sudden fancy for a little dog, but as it gave the two younger ones a chance they would not otherwise have had of being king, and as the eldest was too polite to make any objection, they accepted the commission with pleasure.

Who acts: sudden fancy, dog, Princes, eldest, father · What happens: surprise, give, not have, be, make, accept · To what, where: three Princes, two younger ones, chance, objection, commission

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 (sudden fancy, dog, Princes, eldest), 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	3 Princes	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 Princes	nummod
3	Princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 surprised	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	aux:pass
5	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	6 surprised	advmod
6	surprised	surprise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	12 fancy	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fancy	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 father	case
11	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fancy	amod
12	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surprised	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 dog	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dog	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dog	amod
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fancy	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gave	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 gave	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 gave	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	nsubj
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ones	det
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 ones	nummod
24	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 ones	amod
25	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gave	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 chance	det
27	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 had	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 had	advmod
31	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	33 had	advmod
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 had	aux
33	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 chance	acl:relcl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 king	case
35	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 king	cop
36	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 accepted	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 accepted	cc
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 polite	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 polite	det
41	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	44 polite	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 polite	cop
43	too	too	ADV	_	44 polite	advmod
44	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 accepted	advcl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 make	mark
46	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 polite	csubj
47	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	48 objection	det
48	objection	objection	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 make	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 polite	punct
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 accepted	nsubj
51	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gave	conj
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 commission	det
53	commission	commission	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 accepted	obj
54	with	with	ADP	_	55 pleasure	case
55	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 accepted	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	surprise	past · passive	Princes's father's sudden fancy for a little dog	the three Princes	greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	give	past	dog	the two younger ones		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient chance=Theme
3	not have	would · perfect	Princes = prince	a chance not said here	otherwise property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
4	is	gerund			of king	tree rules
5	is	past	eldest		polite property	tree rules
6	make	to-infinitive		any objection		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset objection=Product
7	accept	past	Princes = prince	the commission	with pleasure	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commission=Theme
8	fancy		Princes's father		for a little dog	nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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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