The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 2

The Wonderful Sheep begged that the Princess would consider herself queen over all that she saw, and assured her that, though for some years he had been very sad and in great trouble, she had it in her power to make him forget all his grief.

Who acts: Wonderful Sheep, Princess, he, him · What happens: beg, consider, see, assure, be, have · To what, where: Princess, that, trouble, power, him, grief · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wonderful Sheep, Princess, he, him), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sheep	det
2	Wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Sheep	amod
3	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 consider	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 consider	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 consider	aux
9	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	ccomp
10	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 consider	obj
11	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 consider	xcomp
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 that	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 that	det:predet
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 consider	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 that	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 assured	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 assured	cc
19	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 assured	iobj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 sad	mark
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 that	punct
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 years	mark
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 years	case
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 years	det
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sad	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sad	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sad	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 sad	cop
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 sad	advmod
31	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 assured	ccomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 trouble	cc
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 trouble	case
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 trouble	amod
35	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sad	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 had	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 power	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 power	nmod:poss
42	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	obl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 make	mark
44	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 had	advcl
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 make	obj
46	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 make	xcomp
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 grief	det:predet
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 grief	nmod:poss
49	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 forget	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the Wonderful Sheep						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	consider	would	the Princess	Princess		that			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute
3	see	past	Princess						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	assure	past	the Wonderful Sheep not said here		Princess				vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	is	past · perfect	he				year	sad property	tree rules
6	have	past	Princess	trouble		Princess's power			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	make	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	him = he					tree rules
8	forget	infinitive	him = he not said here	his grief					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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