The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 159

He had really been present, invisible, at the council of princesses, and had heard all; but he had made up his mind to drink of the philtre, and sacrifice himself to the happiness of her he loved.

Who acts: Gazer · What happens: have, be, hear, make up, drink, sacrifice · To what, where: council, mind, Gazer, happiness

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gazer), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 present	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 present	cop
5	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 invisible	punct
7	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 present	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 council	punct
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 council	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 council	det
11	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 princesses	case
13	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 council	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heard	cc
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 had	conj
18	all	all	ADV	_	17 heard	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 made	aux
23	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 had	parataxis
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 made	compound:prt
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mind	nmod:poss
26	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 drink	mark
28	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 made	advcl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 philtre	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 philtre	det
31	philtre	philtre	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drink	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sacrifice	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sacrifice	cc
34	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 drink	conj
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 sacrifice	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 happiness	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 happiness	det
38	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sacrifice	obl
39	of	of	SCONJ	_	42 loved	mark
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 loved	nmod:poss
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 loved	nsubj
42	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 happiness	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Gazer			the council of princesses		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle	Gazer not said here				present property	tree rules
3	be		Gazer not said here					tree rules
4	hear	past · perfect	Gazer not said here				all property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	make up	past · perfect	Gazer	Gazer's mind				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
6	drink	to-infinitive	Gazer not said here				of the philtre	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of philtre=Source
7	sacrifice	infinitive	Gazer not said here	Gazer	the happiness			vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to happiness=Recipient
8	love	past	Gazer	the happiness not said here				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer happiness=Stimulus
9	mind		Gazer					nom mind «cognition 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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