The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 60

“I know that in the pleasure of listening to you I should quite forget my own hunger; but my horse, who cannot hear you, must really be fed!”

Who acts: Prince, pleasure, horse, my · What happens: know, listen, forget, not hear, feed, hunger · To what, where: you, own hunger, pleasure, horse · 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, pleasure, horse, my), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 forget	mark
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pleasure	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pleasure	det
7	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 forget	obl
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 listening	mark
9	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 pleasure	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 listening	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 forget	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 forget	aux
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 forget	advmod
15	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	ccomp
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hunger	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hunger	amod
18	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 forget	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 horse	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 horse	cc
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 horse	nmod:poss
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fed	nsubj:pass
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hear	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 hear	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 hear	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 hear	advmod
27	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 horse	appos
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 hear	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hear	punct
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 fed	aux
31	really	really	ADV	_	33 fed	advmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 fed	aux:pass
33	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 know	ccomp
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	Prince				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	listen in a quote	gerund	the pleasure not said here		you		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to you=Theme
3	forget in a quote	should	Prince	my own hunger		the pleasure	tree rules
4	not hear in a quote	can	my horse	you			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	feed in a quote	must · passive		my horse			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
6	hunger in a quote		my				nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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