The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 109

I knew his heart, and am certain that if it had not been for the bad influence of those who surrounded him he would have been a good king and a father to his people.

Who acts: I, heart, Darling · What happens: know, be, have, not be, surround · To what, where: heart, Darling, good king

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, heart, Darling), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 heart	nmod:poss
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 certain	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 certain	cc
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 certain	cop
8	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 certain	advcl
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 influence	advmod
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 influence	cop
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 influence	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 influence	det
17	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 influence	amod
18	influence	influence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 those	case
20	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 influence	nmod
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 surrounded	nsubj:pass
22	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 those	acl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 surrounded	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 king	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 king	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 king	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 king	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 king	det
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 king	amod
30	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 those	acl:relcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 father	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 father	det
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 king	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 people	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 people	nmod:poss
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 father	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	I	Darling's heart		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus
2	is	present	I not said here		certain property	tree rules
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past	heart			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not is	participle			for the bad influence; of those	tree rules
5	surround	participle · passive		Darling		tree rules
6	is a	would · perfect	Darling	a good king and a father to Darling's people		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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