The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 50

When the Prince grew old enough to understand, he soon learned that there could be nothing worse than to be proud, obstinate, and conceited, and he had really tried to cure himself of these defects, but by that time all his faults had become habits; and a bad habit is very hard to get rid of.

Who acts: Prince, nothing, faults, bad habit · What happens: grow, understand, learn, be, try, cure · To what, where: prince, habits · 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 (Prince, nothing, faults, bad habit), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 grew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 learned	advcl
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 old	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 understand	mark
8	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 old	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 learned	nsubj
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 learned	advmod
12	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 be	mark
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 be	expl
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 be	aux
16	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 learned	ccomp
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 be	nsubj
18	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 nothing	amod
19	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 proud	mark
20	to	to	PART	_	22 proud	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 proud	cop
22	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 worse	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 obstinate	punct
24	obstinate	obstinate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 proud	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 conceited	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 conceited	cc
27	conceited	conceited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 proud	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tried	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tried	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tried	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 tried	aux
32	really	really	ADV	_	33 tried	advmod
33	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 learned	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 cure	mark
35	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 tried	xcomp
36	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 cure	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 defects	case
38	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	39 defects	det
39	defects	defect	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 cure	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 become	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 become	cc
42	by	by	ADP	_	44 time	case
43	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 time	det
44	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 become	obl
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 faults	det:predet
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 faults	nmod:poss
47	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 become	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 become	aux
49	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 learned	conj
50	habits	habit	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 become	xcomp
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 hard	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 hard	cc
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 habit	det
54	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 habit	amod
55	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 hard	nsubj
56	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 hard	cop
57	very	very	ADV	_	58 hard	advmod
58	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 learned	conj
59	to	to	PART	_	60 get	mark
60	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 hard	csubj
61	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 get	xcomp
62	of	of	ADP	_	61 rid	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the Prince				old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	understand	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	learn	past	prince				soon property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	can	could	nothing		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive	nothing not said here				proud property	tree rules
6	be		nothing not said here					tree rules
7	be		nothing not said here					tree rules
8	try	past · perfect	prince					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	cure not said to happen	to-infinitive	prince not said here	prince			of this defects	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer himself=Source of defect=Theme
10	become	past · perfect	prince's faults	habits		time		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
11	is	present	a bad habit				hard property	tree rules
12	get	to-infinitive					rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
13	fault		prince					nom fault «act transitive»: poss=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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