The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 110

Young Prince Souci had a handsome face, and at the bottom a good deal of common sense; but he had never been taught good manners, and was shy and awkward; and had, besides, never learned how to use his brains.

Who acts: Young Prince · What happens: have, not teach, be, not learn, use, deal · To what, where: handsome face, bottom, prince, brains, common sense

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 (Young Prince), 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	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Prince	amod
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
3	Souci	Souci	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 face	det
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 face	amod
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bottom	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bottom	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 bottom	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bottom	det
12	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 deal	det
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 deal	amod
15	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bottom	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 sense	case
17	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sense	amod
18	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 deal	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 taught	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 taught	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 taught	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 taught	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 taught	advmod
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 taught	aux:pass
25	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 deal	parataxis
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 manners	amod
27	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	25 taught	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 shy	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 shy	cc
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 shy	cop
31	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 taught	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 awkward	cc
33	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 shy	conj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 had	cc
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 taught	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 besides	punct
38	besides	besides	INTJ	_	36 had	discourse
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 learned	punct
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 learned	advmod
41	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 had	conj
42	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	44 use	advmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 use	mark
44	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 learned	xcomp
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 brains	nmod:poss
46	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 use	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Young Prince	a handsome face	the bottom		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
2	not teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient manners=Topic
3	is	past				shy property	tree rules
4	be						tree rules
5	have	past					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	not learn	past					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	use	to-infinitive		prince's brains			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient
8	deal			common sense			nom deal «act transitive»: of=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 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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