The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 94

The king often lost his patience, and was determined to see his daughter, but the queen always put him off the idea, and so things went on, until the very day before the princess completed her fourteenth year.

Who acts: king, queen, things, day · What happens: lose, be, see, put, go on, complete · To what, where: patience, daughter, warning

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, queen, things, day), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 lost	advmod
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 patience	nmod:poss
6	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 determined	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 determined	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 determined	cop
10	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lost	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 determined	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 daughter	nmod:poss
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 put	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 queen	det
18	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	nsubj
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 put	advmod
20	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	obj
22	off	off	ADP	_	24 idea	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 idea	det
24	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 went	advmod
28	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	parataxis
30	on	on	ADV	_	29 went	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 completed	punct
32	until	until	SCONJ	_	39 completed	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 day	det
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 day	advmod
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 completed	nsubj
36	before	before	ADP	_	38 princess	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 princess	det
38	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 day	nmod
39	completed	complete	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 went	conj
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 year	nmod:poss
41	fourteenth	fourteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 year	amod
42	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 completed	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	the king	warning's patience			often property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality
2	is	past	the king not said here				determined property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	the king not said here	warning's daughter				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus
4	put	past	the queen		warning		off the idea; always property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
5	go on	past	things					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	complete	past	the day before the princess			year		vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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