The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 96

But wherever he came in his journeyings he thought the people were mad, for they all talked of his nose, and yet he could not bring himself to admit that it was too long, he had been so used all his life to hear it called handsome.

Who acts: Prince, people, nose · What happens: come, think, be, talk, not bring, admit · To what, where: journeyings, Prince, nose · 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, people, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 thought	cc
2	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 journeyings	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 journeyings	nmod:poss
7	journeyings	journeying	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mad	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mad	cop
13	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thought	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 talked	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 talked	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 talked	nsubj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 talked	advmod
18	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mad	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 nose	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 nose	nmod:poss
21	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 talked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bring	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bring	cc
24	yet	yet	ADV	_	28 bring	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bring	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 bring	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 bring	advmod
28	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 talked	parataxis
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 bring	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 admit	mark
31	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 bring	advcl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 long	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 long	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 long	cop
35	too	too	ADV	_	36 long	advmod
36	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 admit	ccomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 used	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 used	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 used	aux
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 used	aux:pass
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 used	advmod
42	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 thought	conj
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 life	det:predet
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 life	nmod:poss
45	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 used	obl:unmarked
46	to	to	PART	_	47 hear	mark
47	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 used	advcl
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 hear	obj
49	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 hear	xcomp
50	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 called	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Prince		Prince's journeyings		wherever property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in journeying=Location
2	think speech: other	past	Prince					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the people				mad property	tree rules
4	talk	past	people				of Prince's nose	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not bring	could	Prince	Prince		yet		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
6	admit speech: other	to-infinitive	Prince not said here					vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	nose				long property	tree rules
8	use	past · perfect · passive		Prince			Prince's life obl:unmarked	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	hear	to-infinitive		nose				tree rules
10	call	participle	nose not said here				handsome property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	journey		Prince					nom journeying «act transitive»: 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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