The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 111

Breakfast, dinner, and supper were as savoury as before, and the prince would have been quite content with his quarters had it not been for the difficulty of keeping silence in the presence of the maiden.

Who acts: supper, prince, quarters, difficulty · What happens: be, have, not be, keep · To what, where: content, supper, silence, presence

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (supper, prince, quarters, difficulty), 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	Breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dinner	punct
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Breakfast	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 savoury	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 savoury	cc
6	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 savoury	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 savoury	cop
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 savoury	advmod
9	savoury	savoury	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Breakfast	conj
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 before	case
11	before	before	ADV	_	9 savoury	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 content	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 content	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prince	det
15	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 content	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 content	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 content	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 content	cop
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 content	advmod
20	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Breakfast	conj
21	with	with	SCONJ	_	24 had	mark
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 quarters	nmod:poss
23	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 content	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	obj
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 difficulty	advmod
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 difficulty	cop
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 difficulty	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 difficulty	det
30	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 keeping	mark
32	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 difficulty	acl
33	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 keeping	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 presence	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 presence	det
36	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 keeping	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 maiden	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 maiden	det
39	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 presence	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Breakfast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	supper			savoury property	tree rules
2	is a	would · perfect	the prince	content			tree rules
3	have	past	door's quarters	supper			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	not is	participle				for the difficulty	tree rules
5	keep	gerund	the difficulty not said here	silence	the presence of the maiden		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent silence=Theme in presence=Location

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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