The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 21

He made business a pretext for shutting himself up in his study, but it was really in order to spend the time with the Princess, who remained inflexible.

Who acts: King, pretext, Princess · What happens: make, shut up, be, spend, remain, study · To what, where: business, King, study, order

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (King, pretext, Princess), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pretext	det
5	pretext	pretext	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 shutting	mark
7	shutting	shut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 made	advcl
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 shutting	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 shutting	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 study	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 study	nmod:poss
12	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shutting	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 order	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 order	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 order	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 order	cop
17	really	really	ADV	_	19 order	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 order	case
19	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 spend	mark
21	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 order	acl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spend	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 Princess	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Princess	det
26	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 spend	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 remained	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 remained	nsubj
29	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 Princess	acl:relcl
30	inflexible	inflexible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 remained	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	King	business				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset business=Beneficiary pretext=Product
2	shut up	gerund	King not said here	King	King's study			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	is	past	pretext		order			tree rules
4	spend	to-infinitive	King not said here			time	with the Princess	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	remain	past	the Princess				inflexible property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	study		King					nom study «act 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 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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