The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 31

For some time he behaved so well that the ring never pricked him, and that made him so contented that his subjects called him Prince Darling the Happy.

Who acts: Darling, ring, that, subjects · What happens: behave, not prick, make, content, call · To what, where: Darling · 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 (Darling, ring, that, subjects), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 behaved	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 behaved	nsubj
5	behaved	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 behaved	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 pricked	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ring	det
10	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pricked	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 pricked	advmod
12	pricked	prick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 behaved	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pricked	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 made	nsubj
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 behaved	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	obj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 contented	advmod
20	contented	content	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 made	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 called	mark
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 subjects	nmod:poss
23	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 called	nsubj
24	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 contented	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 called	obj
26	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Darling	compound
27	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 called	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Happy	det
29	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 called	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 behaved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	behave	past	Darling			time	well property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
2	not prick	past	the ring	Darling				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient
3	make	past	that	Darling				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
4	content	past	that not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	call speech: assert	past	Darling's subjects		Darling			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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