The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 5

Where to find one rich enough and clever enough to be a suitable match for the princess was what troubled him, and often kept him awake at night.

Who acts: princess · What happens: find, be, keep · To what, where: one rich clever suitable match, king

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 find	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 find	mark
3	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 match	nummod
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 match	amod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 rich	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 clever	cc
8	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 match	amod
9	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 clever	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	14 match	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 match	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 match	det
13	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 match	amod
14	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 princess	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 match	nmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 troubled	cop
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 troubled	nsubj
20	troubled	trouble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 princess	acl:relcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 troubled	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 kept	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 kept	cc
24	often	often	ADV	_	25 kept	advmod
25	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 find	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kept	obj
27	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 kept	xcomp
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 night	case
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kept	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	to-infinitive		a one rich clever suitable match		for the princess	tree rules
3	is	past	the princess			trouble property	tree rules
4	keep	past		king	night	awake, often property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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