The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 44

But the princess had better have kept silence, for her words made her husband’s heart burn within him, and he longed to try his strength against the witch’s cunning.

Who acts: words, man, princess, husband · What happens: keep, make, long, try, word, burn · To what, where: silence, heart burn, princess, strength

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, man, princess, husband), 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	_	4 had	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	aux
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 had	xcomp
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	aux
7	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 made	mark
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 words	nmod:poss
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	parataxis
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	obj
15	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burn	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 husband	case
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burn	compound
18	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
19	within	within	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 longed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 longed	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 longed	nsubj
24	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 try	mark
26	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 longed	xcomp
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 strength	nmod:poss
28	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 try	obj
29	against	against	ADP	_	33 cunning	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 witch	det
31	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cunning	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 witch	case
33	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 try	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past · perfect		silence			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	princess's words	husband's heart burn	princess	within husband	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary burn=Product
3	long	past	man				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's strength		against the witch's cunning	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Eventuality
5	word		princess				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6	burn		husband				nom burn «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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