The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 100

In despair he thought at least that he would try to get near enough to speak to the Dear Little Princess, who, on her part, stretched out her hand that he might kiss it; but turn which way he might, he never could raise it to his lips, for his long nose always prevented it.

Who acts: Prince, long nose · What happens: think, try, get, speak, stretch out, kiss · To what, where: despair, least, hand, part, way, lips · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, long nose), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 despair	case
2	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 least	case
6	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 try	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 try	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 try	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 try	aux
10	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 try	xcomp
13	near	near	ADV	_	12 get	advmod
14	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 get	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 speak	mark
16	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 get	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 Princess	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Princess	det
19	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Princess	amod
20	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Princess	amod
21	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 speak	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 part	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 part	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 part	punct
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 part	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 part	nmod:poss
27	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Princess	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stretched	punct
29	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 part	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 stretched	compound:prt
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hand	nmod:poss
32	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stretched	obj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 kiss	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 kiss	nsubj
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 kiss	aux
36	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 stretched	advcl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 kiss	obj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 turn	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 turn	cc
40	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
41	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	42 way	det
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 turn	obj
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 might	nsubj
44	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 way	acl:relcl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 raise	punct
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 raise	nsubj
47	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	49 raise	advmod
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 raise	aux
49	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 turn	conj
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 raise	obj
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 lips	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 lips	nmod:poss
53	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 raise	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 prevented	punct
55	for	for	SCONJ	_	60 prevented	mark
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 nose	nmod:poss
57	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 nose	amod
58	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 prevented	nsubj
59	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	60 prevented	advmod
60	prevented	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 raise	advcl
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 prevented	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Prince		despair		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	try	would	Prince		least		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	Prince not said here			enough, near property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	Prince not said here			to the Dear Little Princess	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to princess=Co-Agent
5	stretch out	participle	Prince not said here	princess's hand			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
6	kiss	might	Prince	part			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
7	turn	present	Prince not said here	which way			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme
8	not raise	could	Prince	way	Prince's lips		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to lip=Destination
9	prevent	past	Prince's long nose	way		always property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=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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