The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 17

The King was sorry to have frightened her so much, and proposed that they should go and hold a council as to what was best to be done to avert the misfortunes which Carabosse certainly meant to bring upon the little Princess.

Who acts: King, misfortunes · What happens: be, frighten, propose, go, hold, do · To what, where: Queen, council, misfortunes

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (King, misfortunes), 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	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sorry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sorry	cop
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 frightened	mark
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 frightened	aux
7	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sorry	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 frightened	obj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	7 frightened	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 proposed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 proposed	cc
13	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sorry	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 go	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 proposed	ccomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hold	cc
19	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 council	det
21	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hold	obj
22	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	26 best	case
23	to	to	ADP	_	22 as	fixed
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 best	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 best	cop
26	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 hold	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	29 done	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 done	aux:pass
29	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 hold	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 avert	mark
31	avert	avert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 done	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 misfortunes	det
33	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 avert	obj
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 meant	nsubj
35	Carabosse	Carabosse	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 meant	nsubj
36	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	37 meant	advmod
37	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 misfortunes	acl:relcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 bring	mark
39	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 meant	xcomp
40	upon	upon	ADP	_	43 Princess	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Princess	det
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 Princess	amod
43	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bring	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sorry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King		sorry property	tree rules
2	frighten	to-infinitive · perfect	the King not said here	Queen		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
3	propose	past	the King not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	should	King			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hold	infinitive	King not said here	a council		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme
6	is	past			good property	tree rules
7	do	to-infinitive · passive	King not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»
8	avert	to-infinitive	King not said here	the misfortunes		tree rules
9	mean	past	the misfortunes		certainly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	the misfortunes not said here		upon the little Princess	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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 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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