The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 20

The Prince thought all the rooms looked strangely old-fashioned, with their antique furniture, but as there was a good library he was pleased, for he was very fond of reading, and he soon got permission to have as many books as he liked.

Who acts: Prince, rooms, good library · What happens: think, look, be, get, have, like · To what, where: permission, many books · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (Prince, rooms, good library), 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 rooms	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rooms	det
6	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 looked	nsubj
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	ccomp
8	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	11 fashioned	advmod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fashioned	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 old	punct
11	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 looked	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 furniture	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 furniture	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 furniture	nmod:poss
15	antique	antique	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 furniture	amod
16	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looked	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pleased	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 pleased	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 was	mark
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 pleased	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 library	det
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 library	amod
24	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pleased	nsubj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pleased	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 pleased	cop
27	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fond	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 fond	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fond	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 fond	cop
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 fond	advmod
33	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pleased	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 reading	case
35	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fond	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 got	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 got	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 got	nsubj
39	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 got	advmod
40	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
41	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 got	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 have	mark
43	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 permission	acl
44	as	as	ADV	_	45 many	advmod
45	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 books	amod
46	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 have	obj
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 liked	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 liked	nsubj
49	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 got	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Prince			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	look	past	all rooms		fashioned property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	a good library		pleased property	tree rules
4	is	past	prince		of reading; fond property	tree rules
5	get	past	prince	permission	soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer permission=Stimulus
6	have	to-infinitive	prince not said here	many books		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient
7	like	past	prince			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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