The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 35

His Queen did not like this, but when his longing grew so great that he told her he must and would go, she said to him:

Who acts: Queen, longing, flask · What happens: not like, grow, tell, go, say, long · To what, where: this, Queen, flask · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, longing, flask), 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	2 Queen	nmod:poss
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 like	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 like	advmod
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 like	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 grew	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 grew	advmod
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 longing	nmod:poss
11	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grew	nsubj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 like	parataxis
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 great	advmod
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grew	xcomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 told	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 great	advcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 must	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 told	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 go	cc
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 go	aux
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grew	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	obl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	flask's Queen	this			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot this=Theme
2	grow	past	flask's longing			great property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	flask		Queen		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	go	would	flask not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	longing		flask		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
6	long		flask				nom longing «feeling intransitive»: 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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