The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 81

This request made him feel very sad, as if some misfortune must surely come of it, but his love for the Princess being stronger than anything else he did not like to refuse her.

Who acts: request, King, misfortune, love · What happens: make, feel, come, be, not like, refuse · To what, where: King, Princess

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 (request, King, misfortune, love), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 request	det
2	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 sad	advmod
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feel	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 come	mark
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 come	mark
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 misfortune	det
12	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
14	surely	surely	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 feel	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 come	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stronger	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 stronger	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 love	nmod:poss
21	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stronger	nsubj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 Princess	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Princess	det
24	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 love	nmod
25	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 stronger	cop
26	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 made	conj
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 anything	case
28	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 stronger	obl
29	else	else	ADV	_	28 anything	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 like	nsubj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 like	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 like	advmod
33	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 anything	acl:relcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 refuse	mark
35	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 like	xcomp
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 refuse	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	this request	King		tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	King not said here		sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	come a condition, not said to happen	must	some misfortune		of request; surely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_Location
4	is	gerund	King's love for the Princess		than anything; strong property	tree rules
5	not like	past · do-support	King			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	refuse not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here	Princess		vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
7	love		King		for the Princess	nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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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