The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 68

That comes of being a princess: she has been spoiled by flatterers, who have made her believe that she is quite a moderate talker!”

Who acts: That, flatterers, princess · What happens: come, be, spoil, make, believe · To what, where: princess, moderate talker · 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 (That, flatterers, princess), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 princess	case
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 princess	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 spoiled	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spoiled	nsubj
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 spoiled	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 spoiled	aux:pass
11	spoiled	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 comes	parataxis
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 flatterers	case
13	flatterers	flatterer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 spoiled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 made	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 made	aux
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 flatterers	acl:relcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	obj
19	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 made	xcomp
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 talker	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 talker	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 talker	cop
23	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	26 talker	det:predet
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 talker	det
25	moderate	moderate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 talker	amod
26	talker	talker	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 believe	ccomp
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 spoiled	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	That			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	gerund			of a princess	tree rules
3	spoil	present · perfect · passive	flatterers	princess		tree rules
4	make	present · perfect	flatterers	princess		tree rules
5	believe	infinitive	princess not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	present	princess	quite moderate talker		tree rules

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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