The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 108

At first she determined to follow the old custom of keeping the young king ignorant of the duties he would have to perform some day; then, quite suddenly, she resigned the reins of government into his hands; but, unluckily, it was too late to train him properly for the post.

Who acts: fairy, old custom, prince, duties, it · What happens: determine, follow, keep, have, perform, resign · To what, where: old custom, young king ignorant, duties, reins, hands, prince

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, old custom, prince, duties), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 determined	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 determined	nsubj
4	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 follow	mark
6	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 determined	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 custom	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 custom	amod
9	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	obj
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 keeping	mark
11	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 custom	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ignorant	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ignorant	amod
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ignorant	compound
15	ignorant	ignorant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keeping	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 duties	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 duties	det
18	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ignorant	nmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 duties	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 perform	mark
23	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 have	xcomp
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 perform	obl:unmarked
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 resigned	punct
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 resigned	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 then	punct
29	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 suddenly	advmod
30	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	33 resigned	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 resigned	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 resigned	nsubj
33	resigned	resign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 determined	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 reins	det
35	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 resigned	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 government	case
37	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 reins	nmod
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 hands	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hands	nmod:poss
40	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 resigned	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 late	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 late	cc
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 but	punct
44	unluckily	unluckily	ADV	_	49 late	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 late	punct
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 late	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 late	cop
48	too	too	ADV	_	49 late	advmod
49	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 determined	parataxis
50	to	to	PART	_	51 train	mark
51	train	train	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 late	xcomp
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 train	obj
53	properly	properly	ADV	_	51 train	advmod
54	for	for	ADP	_	56 post	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 post	det
56	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 train	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	past	fairy					vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	follow	to-infinitive	fairy not said here	the old custom				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Theme
3	keep	gerund	the old custom not said here	the young king ignorant of the duties				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ignorant=Theme
4	have	would	prince	the duties not said here				tree rules
5	perform	to-infinitive	the duties not said here			day		vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	resign	past	fairy	the reins of government	prince's hands	then	suddenly property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent rein=Theme
7	is	past	it				late, unluckily property	tree rules
8	train	to-infinitive		prince			for the post; properly property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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