The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 31
But all the Prince’s guards were so fond of him that they did everything they dared, in spite of the King, to make the time pass pleasantly.
Who acts: guards · What happens: be, do, dare, make, pass, spite · To what, where: everything, spite, King
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 (guards), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 fond | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 guards | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 guards | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Prince | case |
| 6 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fond | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fond | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 fond | advmod |
| 9 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fond | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 did | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 make | advcl |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 did | obj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dared | nsubj |
| 17 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 everything | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spite | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 spite | case |
| 20 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 did | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 King | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 spite | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 make | punct |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 make | mark |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 fond | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | obj |
| 29 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 make | xcomp |
| 30 | pleasantly | pleasantly | ADV | _ | 29 pass | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prince's guards | of prince; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | guards = guard | everything | spite of the King | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | dare | past | guards = guard | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | time | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pass | infinitive | pleasantly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | spite | the King | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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