The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 11

The Queen told everyone, with much pretended sorrow, that the Princess was so ugly, and so troublesome, and altogether so impossible to love, that to keep her out of sight was the only thing that could be done for her.

Who acts: Queen, Princess, that · What happens: tell, pretend, be, love, keep, do · To what, where: everyone, Queen, only thing, sight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, Princess, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 told	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sorrow	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 sorrow	case
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sorrow	amod
8	pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sorrow	amod
9	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 everyone	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ugly	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 ugly	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princess	det
13	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ugly	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ugly	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 ugly	advmod
16	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 troublesome	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 troublesome	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 troublesome	advmod
20	troublesome	troublesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 impossible	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 impossible	cc
23	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	25 impossible	advmod
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 impossible	advmod
25	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 troublesome	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 love	mark
27	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 impossible	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 keep	punct
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 keep	nsubj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 keep	mark
31	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 keep	obj
33	out	out	ADP	_	35 sight	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 sight	case
35	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 thing	obl
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 thing	cop
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 thing	det
38	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 thing	amod
39	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 keep	parataxis
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 done	obj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 done	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 done	aux:pass
43	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 thing	acl:relcl
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 her	case
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 done	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Queen		everyone			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	pretend	participle						tree rules
3	is	past	the Princess				ugly property	tree rules
4	love	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
5	keep	to-infinitive	that	Queen				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	is a	past		the only thing		sight		tree rules
7	do	could · passive		the only thing			for Queen	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: that=Eventuality

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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