The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 125
The princess made some difficulties, but, as the weather was lovely and very still, she at last consented to the king’s wishes.
Who acts: princess, weather, last, king · What happens: make, be, consent, wish · To what, where: difficulties
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 (princess, weather, last, king), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 difficulties | det |
| 5 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 consented | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 consented | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 but | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 lovely | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 weather | det |
| 11 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lovely | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lovely | cop |
| 13 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 last | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 still | cc |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 still | advmod |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 lovely | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lovely | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 last | nsubj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 last | case |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 consented | nsubj:outer |
| 21 | consented | consent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 made | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 wishes | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 king | case |
| 26 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 consented | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the princess | some difficulties | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the weather | lovely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | consent | participle | last | to the king's wishes | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wish=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wish | the king | nom wish «feeling 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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