The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 65

Now the more difficult it became to obtain the fruit, the more the Queen was determined that have it she would.

Who acts: gold, Queen, that · What happens: become, obtain, be, have · To what, where: fruit, gold

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gold, Queen, that), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 difficult	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 difficult	det
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 difficult	advmod
4	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 became	nsubj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 difficult	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 obtain	mark
8	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 became	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fruit	det
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 obtain	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 determined	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 more	det
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 determined	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Queen	det
15	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 determined	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 determined	cop
17	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 difficult	conj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 determined	ccomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 have	obj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 would	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 have	aux
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 difficult	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	gold			tree rules
2	obtain	to-infinitive	gold not said here	the fruit		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fruit=Theme
3	is	past	the Queen		determined property	tree rules
4	have	would	that	gold		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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