The Yellow Fairy Book, How to Tell a True Princess, sentence 5

So he came home again in very low spirits, for he had wanted very much to have a true Princess.

Who acts: article · What happens: come, want, have · To what, where: low spirits, true Princess

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How to Tell a True Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (article), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 spirits	case
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 low	advmod
8	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spirits	amod
9	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wanted	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 wanted	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wanted	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wanted	aux
14	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 came	parataxis
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	18 have	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 have	mark
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wanted	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 Princess	det
20	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Princess	amod
21	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	article		low spirits	again	home property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spirit=Location
2	want	past · perfect	article					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	article not said here	a true Princess				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

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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