The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 56

At last, in despair, the prince sought out the old woman, to try to get some advice from her as to his conduct, or, anyway, to have the pleasure of talking about Minon-Minette.

Who acts: prince, pleasure, king · What happens: seek out, try, get, have, talk, conduct · To what, where: old woman, last despair, advice, pleasure

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 (prince, pleasure, 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 despair	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 despair	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 despair	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 despair	case
5	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sought	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 despair	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sought	nsubj
9	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 sought	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sought	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 try	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 try	mark
16	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 sought	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 try	xcomp
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 advice	det
20	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 get	obl
23	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	26 conduct	case
24	to	to	ADP	_	23 as	fixed
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 conduct	nmod:poss
26	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 have	cc
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 or	punct
30	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	33 have	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
32	to	to	PART	_	33 have	mark
33	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sought	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pleasure	det
35	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obj
36	of	of	SCONJ	_	37 talking	mark
37	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 pleasure	acl
38	about	about	ADP	_	39 Minon	case
39	Minon	Minon	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 talking	obl
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 Minette	punct
41	Minette	Minette	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Minon	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek out	past	the prince	the old woman	last despair		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent woman=Theme at despair=Location
2	try	to-infinitive					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive		some advice		from woman; as king's conduct	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer advice=Stimulus as conduct=Attribute
4	have	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	the pleasure		anyway property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient
5	talk	gerund	the pleasure not said here			about Minon and Minette	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about minon=Topic
6	conduct		king				nom conduct «act transitive»: 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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