The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 6

And what vexed him more than all was, that though the young ladies throughout all his lands did their best to make the Prince fall in love with them, he would have nothing to say to any of them, and told his father he did not wish to marry.

Who acts: King · What happens: vex, make, have, say, tell, not wish · To what, where: King, Prince fall, love, nothing, any, father · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (King), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 vexed	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 vexed	nsubj
3	vexed	vex	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 vexed	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 all	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 vexed	conj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 all	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 best	punct
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 best	nsubj
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 ladies	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ladies	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ladies	amod
14	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 best	nsubj
15	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	18 lands	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 lands	det:predet
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 lands	nmod:poss
18	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ladies	nmod
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 best	aux
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 best	nmod:poss
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 all	nmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 best	csubj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fall	det
25	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 fall	compound
26	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 love	case
28	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 have	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 have	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 have	aux
34	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 vexed	conj
35	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 have	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 say	mark
37	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 nothing	acl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 any	case
39	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 say	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 any	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 told	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 told	cc
44	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 vexed	conj
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 father	nmod:poss
46	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 told	iobj
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 wish	nsubj
48	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 wish	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 wish	advmod
50	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 told	ccomp
51	to	to	PART	_	52 marry	mark
52	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 wish	xcomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 vexed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	vex	past		King				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	make	to-infinitive		the Prince fall		love	with ladies = lady	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fall=Product
3	have	would	King	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	King not said here	nothing not said here	any			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to any=Recipient
5	tell speech: assert	past			King's father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
6	not wish	past · do-support	King					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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