The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 68

Grimace often talked over the young prince’s affairs with Girouette, and, when she decided that he was old enough to govern his own kingdom, consulted Girouette as to a suitable wife.

Who acts: Grimace, Girouette · What happens: talk, decide, be, govern, consult · To what, where: affairs, own kingdom, Girouette · 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 (Grimace, Girouette), 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	Grimace	grimace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talked	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 talked	advmod
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	9 affairs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prince	amod
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 affairs	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 prince	case
9	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talked	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 Girouette	case
11	Girouette	Girouette	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 affairs	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 decided	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 decided	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 decided	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 decided	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 decided	nsubj
17	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talked	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 old	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 old	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 old	cop
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 decided	ccomp
22	enough	enough	ADV	_	21 old	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 govern	mark
24	govern	govern	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 old	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 kingdom	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 kingdom	amod
27	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 govern	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 consulted	punct
29	consulted	consult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talked	conj
30	Girouette	Girouette	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 consulted	obj
31	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	35 wife	case
32	to	to	ADP	_	31 as	fixed
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 wife	det
34	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 wife	amod
35	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 consulted	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	past	Grimace		the young prince's affairs with Girouette	often property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	decide	past	Grimace				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Girouette			enough, old property	tree rules
4	govern	to-infinitive	Girouette not said here	Girouette's own kingdom			vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
5	consult	past	Grimace not said here	Girouette		as a suitable wife	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent girouette=Theme as wife=Value

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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