The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 23
No one was allowed to come near him whose nose did not more or less resemble his own, and the courtiers, to get into favor with the Queen, took to pulling their babies’ noses several times every day to make them grow long.
Who acts: one, nose, ladies · What happens: allow, come, not resemble, get, take, pull · To what, where: one, own, favor, noses, ladies
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 (one, nose, ladies), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 come | obl |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 nose | nmod:poss |
| 10 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 resemble | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 resemble | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 resemble | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 resemble | advmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 less | cc |
| 15 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 resemble | advmod |
| 16 | resemble | resemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | advcl:relcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 own | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 resemble | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 courtiers | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 courtiers | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 courtiers | det |
| 22 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 allowed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | parataxis |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 favor | case |
| 27 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 Queen | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Queen | det |
| 30 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 favor | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 took | punct |
| 32 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 pulling | mark |
| 34 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 took | advcl |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 babies | nmod:poss |
| 36 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 noses | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 36 babies | case |
| 38 | noses | nose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 pulling | obj |
| 39 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 times | amod |
| 40 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 took | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 day | det |
| 42 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 took | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 make | mark |
| 44 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 took | advcl |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 make | obj |
| 46 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 make | xcomp |
| 47 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 46 grow | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past · passive | no one | the courtiers obl | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | no one not said here | near Prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near he=Location | ||||
| 3 | not resemble | past · do-support | nose | Prince's own | less property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | favor with the Queen | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into favor=Destination | |||||
| 5 | take | past | day; time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | pull | gerund | ladies's babies's noses | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme | |||||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | ladies = lady | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | grow | infinitive | ladies = lady not said here | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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