The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 11

Twenty delightful kings did everything they could think of to make themselves agreeable, and after having spent ever so much money in giving a single entertainment thought themselves very lucky if the Princess said “That’s pretty.”

Who acts: Twenty delightful kings, eyes, Princess · What happens: do, think, make, spend, give, say · To what, where: everything, eyes, much money, single entertainment · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Twenty delightful kings, eyes, Princess), 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	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 kings	nummod
2	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kings	amod
3	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 did	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 think	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 think	aux
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 everything	acl:relcl
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 make	mark
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 think	ccomp
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 make	obj
13	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 make	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spent	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spent	cc
16	after	after	SCONJ	_	17 having	mark
17	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 spent	aux
18	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 did	conj
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 spent	advmod
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 money	amod
22	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spent	obj
23	in	in	SCONJ	_	24 giving	mark
24	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 spent	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 entertainment	det
26	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 entertainment	amod
27	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 giving	obj
28	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 thought	obj
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 lucky	advmod
31	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 thought	ccomp
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 said	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Princess	det
34	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 lucky	advcl
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	38 ’s	punct
37	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 ’s	nsubj
38	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 said	ccomp
39	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	38 ’s	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Twenty delightful kings	everything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	could	eyes = eye				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive		eyes = eye		agreeable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product
4	spend	gerund · perfect	Twenty delightful kings not said here	much money	ever		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
5	give	gerund	Twenty delightful kings not said here	a single entertainment			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entertainment=Theme
6	think speech: other	past	Twenty delightful kings not said here	eyes = eye			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Theme
7	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	the Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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