The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 74

In saying this he was touching a weak point in his brother’s character; for the Prince’s fear of losing any of his power made him at once abandon his first idea of trying to be good, and resolve to try and frighten the shepherdess into consenting to marry him.

Who acts: fear, brother, you, first idea, Prince · What happens: say, touch, lose, make, abandon, try · To what, where: this, weak point, character, any, brother, first idea · 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 (fear, brother, you, first idea), 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	2 saying	mark
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 made	advcl
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 saying	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touching	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 touching	aux
6	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 saying	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 point	det
8	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 point	amod
9	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touching	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 character	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brother	nmod:poss
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 character	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 brother	case
14	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 point	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 fear	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	20 fear	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Prince	det
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 fear	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 Prince	case
20	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	nsubj
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	22 losing	mark
22	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 fear	acl
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 losing	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 power	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 power	nmod:poss
26	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 any	nmod
27	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 abandon	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 made	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 once	case
30	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 abandon	obl
31	abandon	abandon	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 idea	nmod:poss
33	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	34 idea	amod
34	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 abandon	obj
35	of	of	SCONJ	_	36 trying	mark
36	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 idea	acl
37	to	to	PART	_	39 good	mark
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 good	cop
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 trying	xcomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 resolve	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 resolve	cc
42	resolve	resolve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 abandon	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 try	mark
44	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 resolve	xcomp
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 frighten	cc
46	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 try	conj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 shepherdess	det
48	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 frighten	obj
49	into	into	SCONJ	_	50 consenting	mark
50	consenting	consent	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 frighten	advcl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 marry	mark
52	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 consenting	xcomp
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 marry	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 abandon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	the Prince's fear not said here	this			tree rules
2	touch	past · progressive	brother	a weak point	brother's brother's character		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme point=Co-Theme
3	lose	gerund	the Prince's fear not said here	any			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality
4	make	past	the Prince's fear	brother			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
5	abandon	imperative	you not said here	brother's first idea			vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme idea=Source
6	try	gerund	brother's first idea not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	brother's first idea not said here			good property	tree rules
8	resolve	infinitive	you not said here				tree rules
9	try	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
10	frighten	infinitive	you not said here	the shepherdess			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus shepherdess=Experiencer
11	consent	gerund	you not said here				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
12	marry	to-infinitive	you not said here	brother			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
13	fear		the Prince				nom fear «feeling 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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