The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 3

As to the Queen, she had once been very pretty, and she liked to believe that she was so still, which is, of course, always made quite easy for queens.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: have, be, like, believe, make

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), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 Queen	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Queen	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 had	obl
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 pretty	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 pretty	advmod
11	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	8 once	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 liked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 liked	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 liked	nsubj
15	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 believe	mark
17	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 liked	xcomp
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 still	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 still	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 still	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 still	advmod
22	still	still	ADV	_	17 believe	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 easy	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 easy	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 easy	cop
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
27	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	31 made	advmod
28	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 of	fixed
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 made	advmod
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 easy	amod
32	quite	quite	ADV	_	33 easy	advmod
33	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 believe	advcl
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 queens	case
35	queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 easy	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	have	past	Queen	as the Queen	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle	Queen not said here	pretty property	tree rules
3	like	past	Queen		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	believe not said to happen	to-infinitive	Queen not said here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	Queen	still property	tree rules
6	make	participle		always property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
7	is	present		for queens; easy property	tree rules

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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