The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 81

The princess saw what was passing in his mind, and how she could make use of it to satisfy her curiosity as to the golden stairs; so she praised him and flattered him, and put cunning questions, till at length Ciccu’s head was quite turned, and he told her the whole story of the fairies and their gifts.

Who acts: princess, Ciccu, fairies · What happens: see, pass, make, satisfy, praise, flatter · To what, where: mind, use, curiosity, Ciccu, cunning questions, length · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, Ciccu, fairies), 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 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 passing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passing	aux
6	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 saw	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 mind	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mind	nmod:poss
9	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 make	cc
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 make	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	conj
16	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 use	nmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 satisfy	mark
20	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 make	advcl
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 curiosity	nmod:poss
22	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 satisfy	obj
23	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	27 stairs	case
24	to	to	ADP	_	23 as	fixed
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stairs	det
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stairs	amod
27	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 satisfy	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 praised	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 praised	advmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 praised	nsubj
31	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 praised	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 flattered	cc
34	flattered	flatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 praised	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 flattered	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 put	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 put	cc
38	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	conj
39	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 questions	compound
40	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 put	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 turned	punct
42	till	till	SCONJ	_	50 turned	mark
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 length	case
44	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 turned	obl
45	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 head	nmod:poss
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 Ciccu	case
47	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 length	appos
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 turned	aux:pass
49	quite	quite	ADV	_	50 turned	advmod
50	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 put	advcl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 told	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 told	cc
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 told	nsubj
54	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
55	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 told	iobj
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 story	det
57	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 story	amod
58	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 told	obj
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 fairies	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 fairies	det
61	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 story	nmod
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 gifts	cc
63	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 gifts	nmod:poss
64	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 fairies	conj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the princess					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	pass	past · progressive				Ciccu's mind		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mind=Location
3	make	could	princess	use of use				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product
4	satisfy	to-infinitive	princess not said here	princess's curiosity			as the golden stairs	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus curiosity=Experiencer
5	praise	past	princess	Ciccu				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	flatter	past	princess not said here	Ciccu				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
7	put	infinitive	the princess not said here	cunning questions				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal
8	turn	past · passive	the princess not said here			length		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: at length=Trajectory
9	tell speech: assert	past	Ciccu	the whole story of the fairies and fairies's gifts	princess			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient story=Topic
10	mind		Ciccu					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
11	use			use				nom use «act transitive»: of=patient
12	gift		fairies = fairy					nom gift «possession 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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