The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 16

The King and Queen deeply regretted this alteration in their son, but did not know how to mend matters, since the good old Fairy had made him so self-willed.

Who acts: King · What happens: regret, not know, mend, make, will · To what, where: alteration, matters, good old Fairy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 regretted	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Queen	cc
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 King	conj
5	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	6 regretted	advmod
6	regretted	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 alteration	det
8	alteration	alteration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 regretted	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 son	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 regretted	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 know	cc
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 know	advmod
16	know	know	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 regretted	parataxis
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 mend	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 mend	mark
19	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 know	ccomp
20	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 mend	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 made	punct
22	since	since	SCONJ	_	28 made	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Fairy	det
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Fairy	amod
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Fairy	amod
26	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 made	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 made	aux
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 know	parataxis
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 made	obj
30	so	so	SCONJ	_	33 willed	mark
31	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 willed	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 self	punct
33	willed	will	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 made	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 regretted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	regret	past	the King and Queen	this alteration	in King's son; deeply property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer alteration=Stimulus
2	not know	past · do-support				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	mend	to-infinitive		matters		tree rules
4	make	past · perfect · passive		the good old Fairy		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product
5	will	participle				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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