The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 125

The Queen petted and took care of him, but she was so afraid that he would get too fat that she consulted the court physician, who said that he was to be fed only upon bread, and was not to have much even of that.

Who acts: Queen, prince, court physician · What happens: pet, take, be, get, consult, say · To what, where: care, court physician, prince, that · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Queen, prince, court physician), 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	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 petted	nsubj
3	petted	pet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 took	cc
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 petted	conj
6	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 care	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 afraid	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 afraid	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 afraid	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 afraid	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 afraid	advmod
14	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 petted	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 get	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 get	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 get	aux
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 afraid	advcl
19	too	too	ADV	_	20 fat	advmod
20	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 get	xcomp
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 consulted	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 consulted	nsubj
23	consulted	consult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fat	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 physician	det
25	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 physician	compound
26	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 consulted	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 physician	acl:relcl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 fed	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fed	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 fed	aux:pass
33	to	to	PART	_	35 fed	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 fed	aux:pass
35	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 said	ccomp
36	only	only	ADV	_	38 bread	advmod
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	38 bread	case
38	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fed	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 have	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 have	cc
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 have	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 have	advmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 have	mark
44	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 petted	conj
45	much	much	ADV	_	44 have	advmod
46	even	even	ADV	_	48 that	advmod
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 that	case
48	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 have	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 petted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pet	past	the Queen			vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	the Queen not said here	care of prince		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	is	past	queen		afraid property	tree rules
4	get	would	prince		fat property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	consult	past	queen	the court physician		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent physician=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	the court physician			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	feed	past · passive		prince	upon bread	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
8	not have	past	the Queen not said here	that		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
9	care		prince			nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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