The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 50

Even the attention paid him by the princess, who was delighted with his beauty and pretty ways, did not console him, but there was no use in fighting against fate, and he could only wait and see what would turn up.

Who acts: attention, princess, use, Gon · What happens: pay, be, do, fight, wait, see · To what, where: Gon, console · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (attention, princess, use, Gon), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	4 paid	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 attention	det
3	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 princess	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 delighted	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 delighted	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 delighted	cop
12	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 princess	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 beauty	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 beauty	nmod:poss
15	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 delighted	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ways	cc
17	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ways	amod
18	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 beauty	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 did	punct
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	conj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 console	advmod
22	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 did	obj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 console	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 was	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 was	cc
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	parataxis
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 use	det
29	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 was	nsubj
30	in	in	SCONJ	_	31 fighting	mark
31	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 use	acl
32	against	against	ADP	_	33 fate	case
33	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fighting	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 wait	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 wait	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 wait	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 wait	aux
38	only	only	ADV	_	39 wait	advmod
39	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 paid	parataxis
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 see	cc
41	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 wait	conj
42	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	44 turn	obj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 turn	aux
44	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 see	ccomp
45	up	up	ADP	_	44 turn	compound:prt
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pay	past	the attention	Gon		by the princess	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset
2	is	past	the princess			with Gon's beauty and pretty ways; delighted property	tree rules
3	do	past	the attention not said here	console			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent console=Eventuality
4	be	past	no use		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fight	gerund	no use not said here			against fate	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wait	could	Gon				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	see	infinitive	Gon not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	turn up	would					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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