The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 15

The fairy Aveline, who lived in a country that touched at one point the kingdom of King Souci, had under her care the lovely Princess Minon-Minette, and had made up her mind to marry her to the young king, who, in spite of his awkward manners, which could be improved, was really very much nicer than most of the young men she was likely to meet.

Who acts: fairy, country, young king, spite, Aveline, princess · What happens: live, touch, have, make up, marry, improve · To what, where: country, one point, lovely Princess, care, mind, princess

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 (fairy, country, young king, spite), 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 fairy	det
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	nsubj
3	Aveline	Aveline	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fairy	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 country	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 country	det
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 touched	nsubj
11	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 country	acl:relcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 point	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 point	nummod
14	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 touched	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 kingdom	det
16	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 point	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 King	case
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 kingdom	nmod
19	Souci	Souci	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 King	flat
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
22	under	under	ADP	_	24 care	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 care	nmod:poss
24	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Princess	det
26	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Princess	amod
27	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 had	obl
28	Minon	Minon	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Princess	flat
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Minette	punct
30	Minette	Minette	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Princess	flat
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 made	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 made	cc
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 made	aux
34	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 lived	conj
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 made	compound:prt
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 mind	nmod:poss
37	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 made	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 marry	mark
39	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 made	advcl
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 marry	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	44 king	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 king	det
43	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 king	amod
44	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 marry	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 nicer	punct
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	64 nicer	nsubj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 spite	punct
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 spite	case
49	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 who	nsubj
50	of	of	ADP	_	53 manners	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 manners	nmod:poss
52	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 manners	amod
53	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	49 spite	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 improved	punct
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 improved	nsubj:pass
56	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 improved	aux
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 improved	aux:pass
58	improved	improve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	53 manners	acl:relcl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 who	punct
60	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 nicer	cop
61	really	really	ADV	_	64 nicer	advmod
62	very	very	ADV	_	63 much	advmod
63	much	much	ADV	_	64 nicer	advmod
64	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	44 king	parataxis
65	than	than	ADP	_	66 most	case
66	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	64 nicer	obl
67	of	of	ADP	_	70 men	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 men	det
69	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 men	amod
70	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 most	nmod
71	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 likely	nsubj
72	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	73 likely	cop
73	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 men	acl:relcl
74	to	to	PART	_	75 meet	mark
75	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	73 likely	xcomp
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	the fairy		a country		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location
2	touch	past	a country		one point		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	the fairy not said here	the lovely Princess	Aveline's care		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	make up	past · perfect	the fairy not said here	princess's mind			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
5	marry	to-infinitive	the fairy not said here	princess		to the young king	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to king=Co-Patient
6	improve	could · passive		king's awkward manners			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
7	is	past	the young king			than most of the young men; nice property	tree rules
8	is	past	spite	the young men not said here		likely property	tree rules
9	meet	to-infinitive	spite not said here				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	care		Aveline				nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent
11	mind		princess				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
12	spite			king's awkward manners			nom spite «feeling 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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