The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 58

In answer to his questions he learned that in order to win the hand of the princess it was not enough to be born a prince, for she would marry nobody who had not proved himself faithful, and had, besides, all those talents and accomplishments which help to make people happy.

Who acts: king, hand, princess, nobody, talents · What happens: learn, win, not be, bear, marry, not prove · To what, where: answer, hand, prince, king, talents, people · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, hand, princess, nobody), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 answer	case
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 learned	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 questions	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 questions	nmod:poss
5	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 answer	nmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 learned	nsubj
7	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 win	mark
9	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 win	mark
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 in	fixed
11	to	to	PART	_	12 win	mark
12	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 learned	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hand	det
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 win	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 princess	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 enough	obl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 enough	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 enough	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 enough	advmod
21	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hand	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	24 born	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 born	aux:pass
24	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 enough	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 prince	det
26	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 born	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 marry	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 marry	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 marry	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 marry	aux
31	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 born	conj
32	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	36 proved	nsubj
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 proved	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 proved	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 proved	advmod
36	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 marry	ccomp
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 proved	obj
38	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 proved	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 had	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 had	cc
41	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 proved	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 talents	punct
43	besides	besides	INTJ	_	47 talents	discourse
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 besides	punct
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 talents	det:predet
46	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	47 talents	det
47	talents	talent	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 had	obj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 accomplishments	cc
49	accomplishments	accomplishment	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 talents	conj
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 help	nsubj
51	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 talents	acl:relcl
52	to	to	PART	_	53 make	mark
53	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 help	xcomp
54	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 make	obj
55	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 make	xcomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	past	king		answer to king's questions		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	win	to-infinitive		the hand			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Eventuality
3	not is	past	hand			of the princess; enough property	tree rules
4	bear	to-infinitive · passive	hand not said here	a prince			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: prince=Patient
5	marry	would	princess				tree rules
6	not prove	past · perfect	nobody	king		faithful property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
7	have	past		all talents and accomplishments			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talent=Patient
8	help	present	all talents and accomplishments				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	make	to-infinitive	all talents and accomplishments not said here	people		happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product
10	question		king				nom question «communication 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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