The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 78

His bad friends, when they heard him, resolved to turn his wrath upon an old nobleman who had formerly been his tutor; and who still dared sometimes to tell the Prince of his faults, for he loved him as if he had been his own son.

Who acts: bad friends, old nobleman, brother · What happens: hear, resolve, turn, have, be, dare · To what, where: brother, wrath, tutor, Prince · 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 (bad friends, old nobleman, brother), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friends	nmod:poss
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 friends	amod
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heard	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 resolved	punct
10	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 turn	mark
12	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 resolved	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wrath	nmod:poss
14	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turn	obj
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 nobleman	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 nobleman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nobleman	amod
18	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turn	obl
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 nobleman	acl:relcl
21	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	24 tutor	advmod
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 tutor	cop
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 tutor	nmod:poss
24	tutor	tutor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 dared	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dared	cc
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 dared	nsubj
28	still	still	ADV	_	29 dared	advmod
29	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	parataxis
30	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 dared	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 tell	mark
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 dared	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Prince	det
34	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 tell	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 faults	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 faults	nmod:poss
37	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 Prince	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 loved	punct
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	41 loved	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 loved	nsubj
41	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 dared	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 loved	obj
43	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	50 son	case
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 as	fixed
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 son	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 son	aux
47	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 son	cop
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 son	nmod:poss
49	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 son	amod
50	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 loved	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	brother's bad friends	brother				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	resolve	past	brother's bad friends not said here					tree rules
3	turn	to-infinitive	brother's bad friends not said here	brother's wrath			upon a old nobleman	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wrath=Theme
4	have	past	a old nobleman					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	participle		brother's tutor			formerly property	tree rules
6	dare	past				still	sometimes property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			the Prince of brother's faults			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient
8	love	past	brother	prince				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
9	is	past · perfect	brother				as brother's own son	tree rules
10	fault		brother					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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