The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 25

When he grew sensible he learned history; and whenever any great prince or beautiful princess was spoken of, his teachers took care to tell him that they had long noses.

Who acts: Prince, teachers · What happens: grow, learn, speak, take, tell, have · To what, where: history, great prince, care, Prince, long noses · 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, teachers), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 grew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 learned	nsubj
6	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
7	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learned	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 spoken	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spoken	cc
10	whenever	whenever	SCONJ	_	18 spoken	mark
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 prince	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 prince	amod
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spoken	nsubj:pass
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 princess	cc
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 princess	amod
16	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 prince	conj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spoken	aux:pass
18	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grew	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 spoken	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 teachers	nmod:poss
22	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spoken	parataxis
24	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 tell	mark
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 took	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tell	iobj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	ccomp
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 noses	amod
32	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 had	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Prince			sensible property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	learn	past	Prince	history			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Topic
3	speak speech: other	past · passive		any great prince or beautiful princess			tree rules
4	take	past	Prince's teachers	care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Prince's teachers not said here		Prince		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	have	past	teachers = teacher	long noses			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=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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