The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 71

But Halvor went about and was so strange and so mournful and quiet that the Princesses asked what it was that he longed for, and if he did not like to be with them.

Who acts: Halvor, Princesses, youngest · What happens: go about, be, ask, not like

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, Princesses, youngest), 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	_	3 went	cc
2	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 strange	cc
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 strange	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 strange	advmod
8	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mournful	cc
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 mournful	advmod
11	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 strange	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 quiet	cc
13	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mournful	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 asked	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princesses	det
16	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 asked	nsubj
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mournful	advcl
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 asked	obj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 longed	nsubj:outer
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 longed	cop
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 longed	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 longed	nsubj
23	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 what	acl:relcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	23 longed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 like	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 like	cc
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 like	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 like	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 like	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 like	advmod
31	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	35 them	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 them	cop
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 like	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go about	past	Halvor	about property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Halvor not said here	strange property	tree rules
3	be		Halvor not said here		tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	past	the Princesses		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
5	is	past	youngest = young	long property	tree rules
6	not like a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	Halvor		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	is	to-infinitive	Halvor not said here	with heads = head	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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