The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 7

Now it often happens that as princes can generally manage to get their own way it is harder for them to be good than it is for common people.

Who acts: it, own way, kings, way · What happens: happen, manage, get, be

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, own way, kings, way), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 happens	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happens	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 happens	advmod
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 manage	mark
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 princes	case
7	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 manage	obl
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 manage	aux
9	generally	generally	ADV	_	10 manage	advmod
10	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 happens	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 manage	xcomp
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 way	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 harder	nsubj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 harder	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 harder	cop
18	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 get	parataxis
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 good	mark
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 good	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	23 good	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 good	cop
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 harder	advcl
24	than	than	ADP	_	29 people	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 people	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 people	cop
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 people	case
28	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 people	amod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 good	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happens	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	it	now	often property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	manage	can			as princes; generally property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	kings's own way		hard property	tree rules
5	is	to-infinitive	kings = king		good property	tree rules
6	is	present	way		than common people	tree rules

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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