The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 81

She had always kept up a close correspondence with her brother, and the accounts she heard of Prince Alphege made her long to become acquainted with so charming a nephew.

Who acts: Queen, accounts · What happens: keep up, hear, make, become, charm · To what, where: close correspondence, accounts, nephew

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, accounts), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 kept	advmod
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 kept	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 correspondence	det
7	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 correspondence	amod
8	correspondence	correspondence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 brother	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brother	nmod:poss
11	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 correspondence	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 made	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 accounts	det
15	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 made	nsubj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 accounts	acl:relcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Prince	case
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obl
20	Alphege	Alphege	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Prince	flat
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	parataxis
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 long	nmod:poss
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 made	xcomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 become	mark
25	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 made	advcl
26	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 become	xcomp
27	with	with	SCONJ	_	29 charming	mark
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 charming	advmod
29	charming	charm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 acquainted	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 nephew	det
31	nephew	nephew	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 charming	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep up	past · perfect	Queen	a close correspondence	with Queen's brother; always property	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent correspondence=Theme
2	hear	past	Queen	the accounts not said here	of Prince	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer account=Stimulus
3	make	past	the accounts		long property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	become	to-infinitive	the accounts not said here		acquainted property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	charm	gerund	the accounts not said here	a nephew		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nephew=Experiencer

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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