The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 22

The Prince was brought up with great care; and, as soon as he could speak, they told him all sorts of dreadful stories about people who had short noses.

Who acts: Prince, ladies, people · What happens: bring up, speak, tell, have, sort · To what, where: Prince, sorts, short noses, dreadful stories · 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, ladies, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:174): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 brought	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	aux:pass
4	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 brought	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 care	case
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 care	amod
8	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 and	punct
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 soon	advmod
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 told	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 speak	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 speak	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 speak	aux
17	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 soon	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	nsubj
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 sorts	det
23	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 told	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 stories	case
25	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stories	amod
26	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sorts	nmod
27	about	about	ADP	_	28 people	case
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stories	nmod
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 people	acl:relcl
31	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 noses	amod
32	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 had	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bring up	past · passive		the Prince		with great care	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with care=Instrument
2	speak speech: other	could	Prince				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	ladies = lady	all sorts of dreadful stories about people	Prince	soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sort=Topic
4	have	past	people	short noses			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient
5	sort			dreadful stories about people			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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