The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 55

This declaration was not at all to the Enchanter’s taste; but he knew that there was no help for it, and that he would have to behave well, and pay the Princess all the delicate attentions he could think of; though they were not at all the sort of thing he was used to.

Who acts: declaration, help, tastes, Enchanter · What happens: know, be, have, behave, pay, think · To what, where: Princess, delicate attentions, sort, help · 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 (declaration, help, tastes, Enchanter), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 declaration	det
2	declaration	declaration	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knew	nsubj:outer
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 all	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 all	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 declaration	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 taste	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Enchanter	det
9	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 taste	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Enchanter	case
11	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 declaration	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 knew	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 was	mark
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 knew	ccomp
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 help	det
20	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 was	nsubj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 help	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 have	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 knew	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 behave	mark
30	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 have	xcomp
31	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 behave	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pay	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 pay	cc
34	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 have	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Princess	det
36	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pay	obj
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 attentions	det:predet
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 attentions	det
39	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 attentions	amod
40	attentions	attention	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 pay	obj
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 think	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 think	aux
43	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 attentions	acl:relcl
44	of	of	ADP	_	43 think	obl
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 sort	punct
46	though	though	SCONJ	_	53 sort	mark
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 sort	nsubj
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 sort	cop
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 sort	advmod
50	at	at	ADP	_	53 sort	case
51	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	53 sort	det:predet
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 sort	det
53	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knew	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 thing	case
55	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sort	nmod
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 used	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 used	aux:pass
58	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 thing	acl:relcl
59	to	to	PART	_	58 used	xcomp
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	this declaration to the Enchanter's taste					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	past	no help for heart			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	would	help					tree rules
4	behave	to-infinitive	help not said here				well property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
5	pay	infinitive	help not said here		the Princess			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient attention=Asset
6	think speech: other	could	help	all delicate attentions not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot attention=Theme
7	not is	past	tastes = taste			all sort	of thing	tree rules
8	use	past · passive		help				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	taste		the Enchanter					nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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