The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 43

The youngest Princess would fain have let herself be convinced by her sisters’ words, and have believed what they said, but her heart was heavy.

Who acts: youngest Princess, words, Sisters, heart · What happens: fain, let, convince, believe, say, be · To what, where: Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest Princess, words, Sisters, heart), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 Princess	amod
3	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fain	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fain	aux
5	fain	fain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	aux
7	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 fain	advcl
8	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 let	obj
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 convinced	aux:pass
10	convinced	convince	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 let	xcomp
11	by	by	ADP	_	15 words	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sisters	nmod:poss
13	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 words	nmod:poss
14	’	's	PART	_	13 sisters	case
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 convinced	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 believed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 believed	cc
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 believed	aux
19	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 let	conj
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 said	obj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 believed	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 heavy	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 heavy	cc
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 heart	nmod:poss
26	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 heavy	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 heavy	cop
28	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fain	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fain	would	the youngest Princess			tree rules
2	let	infinitive · perfect	the youngest Princess not said here	Princess		tree rules
3	convince	infinitive · passive	Princess's sisters's words			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	believe	present · perfect	the youngest Princess not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past	Sisters = sister			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
6	is	past	Princess's heart		heavy property	tree rules
7	word		Princess's sisters			nom word «communication 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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