The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 48

The fact was he had been brought up by a foolish nurse, who had spoiled him when he was little.

Who acts: foolish nurse, prince · What happens: bring up, spoil, be · To what, where: fact, prince

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 (foolish nurse, prince), 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 fact	det
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brought	aux:pass
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 brought	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brought	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 brought	aux:pass
7	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 brought	compound:prt
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 nurse	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 nurse	det
11	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nurse	amod
12	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spoiled	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 spoiled	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 spoiled	aux
16	spoiled	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 nurse	acl:relcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 spoiled	obj
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 little	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 little	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 little	cop
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 spoiled	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bring up	past · perfect · passive	a foolish nurse	the fact		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	spoil	past · perfect	a foolish nurse	prince		tree rules
3	is	past	prince		little property	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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