The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 56

He gave himself up to doing every foolish thing that occurred to him, until he became quite wicked and nobody could like him any longer.

Who acts: prince, foolish thing, nobody · What happens: give up, do, occur, become, like · To what, where: prince, foolish thing

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, foolish thing, nobody), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 gave	iobj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 gave	compound:prt
5	to	to	SCONJ	_	6 doing	mark
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gave	advcl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 thing	det
8	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 occurred	nsubj
11	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thing	acl:relcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 occurred	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 became	punct
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 became	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 became	nsubj
17	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 wicked	advmod
19	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 became	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 like	cc
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 like	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 like	aux
23	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 became	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 like	obj
25	any	any	ADV	_	26 longer	advmod
26	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 like	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give up	past	prince		prince		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Source
2	do	gerund	prince not said here	every foolish thing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
3	occur	past	every foolish thing		prince		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past	prince			wicked property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	like	could	nobody	prince		long property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

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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