The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 5

Now, the only trouble that Lord Tubby had was about his son, whom he loved very much, although they were not in the least alike, for the young Prince was as thin as a cuckoo.

Who acts: Lord, only trouble, King, lords, young Prince · What happens: have, be, love, not be · To what, where: only trouble, son

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord, only trouble, King, lords), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 son	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trouble	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trouble	amod
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 son	nsubj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	obj
7	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
8	Tubby	Tubby	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Lord	flat
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trouble	acl:relcl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 son	cop
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 son	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 loved	punct
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 loved	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 loved	nsubj
17	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 son	acl:relcl
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADV	_	17 loved	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 alike	punct
21	although	although	SCONJ	_	28 alike	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 alike	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 alike	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 alike	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 alike	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 alike	det
27	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 alike	advmod
28	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 loved	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 thin	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 thin	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Prince	det
32	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Prince	amod
33	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 thin	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 thin	cop
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 thin	advmod
36	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 loved	conj
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 cuckoo	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 cuckoo	det
39	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 thin	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Lord	the only trouble			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
2	is	past	the only trouble		now	about King's son	tree rules
3	love	past	King	King's son			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
4	not is	past	lords = lord			alike property	tree rules
5	is	past	the young Prince			as a cuckoo; thin property	tree rules

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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