The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 26

His room was hung with pictures, all of people with very large noses; and the Prince grew up so convinced that a long nose was a great beauty, that he would not on any account have had his own a single inch shorter!

Who acts: Prince, long nose · What happens: hang, grow up, be, have · To what, where: room, great beauty, own single inch

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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 room	nmod:poss
2	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hung	aux:pass
4	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 pictures	case
6	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hung	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 people	punct
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 people	det
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 people	case
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pictures	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 noses	case
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 large	advmod
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 noses	amod
14	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 people	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 grew	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grew	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Prince	det
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 grew	nsubj
19	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hung	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 grew	compound:prt
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 convinced	advmod
22	convinced	convinced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grew	xcomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 beauty	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 nose	det
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 nose	amod
26	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beauty	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 beauty	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 beauty	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 beauty	amod
30	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 convinced	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 had	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 had	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 account	advmod
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 account	case
37	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	38 account	det
38	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	nsubj
39	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 had	aux
40	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 grew	conj
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 inch	nmod:poss
42	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 inch	amod
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 inch	det
44	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 inch	amod
45	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obj
46	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 had	xcomp
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hang	past · passive		Prince's room	with pictures and all people with large noses	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with picture=Instrument
2	grow up	past	the Prince		convinced property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	a long nose	a great beauty		tree rules
4	have	would · perfect	Prince	Prince's own single inch	short property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inch=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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