The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 122

The kingdom was left in the charge of the Prime Minister, who answered ‘Ditto’ to everything; but the choice was better than it seemed, for the worthy man was much beloved by the people, as he agreed with all they said, and they left him feeling very pleased with themselves and their own wisdom.

Who acts: Prime Minister, choice, it, people, man, kingdoms · What happens: leave, answer, be, seem, belov, agree · To what, where: kingdom, charge, Ditto, worthy man, man, Prime Minister · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Prime Minister, choice, it, people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kingdom	det
2	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux:pass
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 charge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 charge	det
7	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Minister	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Minister	det
10	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	11 Minister	compound
11	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 charge	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 answered	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 answered	nsubj
14	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Minister	acl:relcl
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Ditto	punct
16	Ditto	Ditto	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 answered	obj
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 Ditto	punct
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 everything	case
19	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 answered	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 better	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 better	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 choice	det
23	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 better	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 better	cop
25	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 left	parataxis
26	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 seemed	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seemed	nsubj
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 better	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 beloved	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 beloved	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 man	det
32	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 beloved	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 beloved	aux:pass
35	much	much	ADV	_	36 beloved	advmod
36	beloved	belov	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 left	parataxis
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 people	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 people	det
39	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 beloved	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 agreed	punct
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 agreed	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 agreed	nsubj
43	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 beloved	parataxis
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 all	case
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 agreed	obl
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 said	nsubj
47	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 all	acl:relcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 left	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 left	cc
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 left	nsubj
51	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 agreed	conj
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 left	obj
53	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 left	xcomp
54	very	very	ADV	_	55 pleased	advmod
55	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 feeling	xcomp
56	with	with	ADP	_	57 themselves	case
57	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	53 feeling	obl
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 wisdom	cc
59	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 wisdom	nmod:poss
60	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 wisdom	amod
61	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 themselves	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		the kingdom		the charge of the Prime Minister		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in charge=Location
2	answer speech: assert	past	the Prime Minister		Ditto		to everything	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ditto=Eventuality
3	is	past	the choice				good property	tree rules
4	seem	past	it					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	belov	past · passive	the people	the worthy man				tree rules
6	agree speech: agree	past	man				with all	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with all=Co-Agent
7	say speech: assert	past	kingdoms = kingdom					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	leave	past	kingdoms = kingdom	man				tree rules
9	feel	gerund	man not said here				with kingdoms = kingdom; pleased property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
10	charge			the Prime Minister				nom charge «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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