The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 14
Now it was the custom in those days for princes and princesses to be brought up by fairies, who loved them as their own children, and did not mind what inconvenience they put other people to for their sakes, for all the world as if they had been real mothers.
Who acts: end, fairies, inconvenience · What happens: be, bring up, love, not mind, put · To what, where: custom, fairies, other people
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, fairies, inconvenience), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 custom | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 custom | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 custom | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 custom | det |
| 5 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 days | det |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 custom | nmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 princes | case |
| 10 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 days | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 princesses | cc |
| 12 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 princes | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 brought | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 brought | aux:pass |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 custom | acl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 brought | compound:prt |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 fairies | case |
| 18 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 brought | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 loved | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 loved | nsubj |
| 21 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fairies | acl:relcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 loved | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 children | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 children | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 children | amod |
| 26 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 loved | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 mind | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 mind | cc |
| 29 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 mind | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 mind | advmod |
| 31 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 loved | conj |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 put | obj |
| 33 | inconvenience | inconvenience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 put | nsubj |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 put | nsubj |
| 35 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 mind | ccomp |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 people | amod |
| 37 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 put | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 put | xcomp |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 sakes | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 sakes | nmod:poss |
| 41 | sakes | sake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 put | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 world | punct |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 world | case |
| 44 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 world | det:predet |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 world | det |
| 46 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 mind | obl |
| 47 | as | as | ADP | _ | 53 mothers | case |
| 48 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 53 mothers | mark |
| 49 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 mothers | nsubj |
| 50 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 mothers | aux |
| 51 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 53 mothers | cop |
| 52 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 mothers | amod |
| 53 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 mind | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 custom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | end | the custom | now; day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring up | to-infinitive · passive | fairies | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | love | past | fairies | fairies = fairy | as fairies's own children | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | not mind | past · do-support | fairies not said here | for all world | vn care-88.1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | put | past | inconvenience | other people | for fairies's sakes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent what=Asset people=Goal | |||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | fairies = fairy | as real mothers | tree rules |
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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