The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 79
At first Prince Darling had thanked him, but after a time he grew impatient and thought it must be just mere love of fault-finding that made his old tutor blame him when everyone else was praising and flattering him.
Who acts: brother, tutor, fault finding, old tutor, everyone · What happens: thank, grow, think, be, make, blame · To what, where: brother, first Prince Darling, mere love, old tutor · 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 (brother, tutor, fault finding, old tutor), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Darling | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Darling | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Darling | compound |
| 4 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 thanked | obl |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thanked | aux |
| 6 | thanked | thank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thanked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grew | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 grew | cc |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grew | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 grew | nsubj |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thanked | parataxis |
| 15 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grew | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thought | cc |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 grew | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 love | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 love | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 love | cop |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 love | advmod |
| 22 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 love | amod |
| 23 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 finding | case |
| 25 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 finding | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 fault | punct |
| 27 | finding | finding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 love | nmod |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 made | nsubj |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 finding | acl:relcl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 tutor | nmod:poss |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 tutor | amod |
| 32 | tutor | tutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | obj |
| 33 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 made | xcomp |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 blame | obj |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 praising | advmod |
| 36 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 39 praising | nsubj |
| 37 | else | else | ADV | _ | 36 everyone | advmod |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 praising | aux |
| 39 | praising | praise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 blame | advcl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 flattering | cc |
| 41 | flattering | flatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 praising | conj |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 flattering | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past · perfect | brother | first Prince Darling | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | brother | time | impatient property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | brother not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | must | tutor | mere love | of fault finding | tree rules | |||
| 5 | make | past | fault finding | brother's old tutor | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | blame | infinitive | brother's old tutor not said here | brother | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | praise | past · progressive | everyone | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | flatter | gerund | everyone not said here | brother | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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