The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 41

The Prince consented with alacrity, not only out of politeness, but because he foresaw that to have a faithful friend always near the Princess might some day be of great service to him.

Who acts: Prince, Princess · What happens: consent, foresee, have, be · To what, where: faithful friend, Prince

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Princess), 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 consented	nsubj
3	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 alacrity	case
5	alacrity	alacrity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consented	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 politeness	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 politeness	advmod
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 politeness	advmod
9	out	out	ADP	_	11 politeness	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 politeness	case
11	politeness	politeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alacrity	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 foresaw	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 foresaw	cc
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 foresaw	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 foresaw	nsubj
16	foresaw	foresee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 consented	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 have	mark
18	to	to	PART	_	19 have	mark
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 foresaw	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 friend	det
21	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 friend	amod
22	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
23	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 Princess	advmod
24	near	near	ADP	_	26 Princess	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Princess	det
26	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 service	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 service	aux
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 service	nsubj
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 service	cop
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 service	case
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 service	amod
33	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 friend	acl:relcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 service	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	consent	past	the Prince			with alacrity and politeness	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	foresee	past	Prince				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	a faithful friend			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient
4	is	might	the Princess	a faithful friend not said here	Prince	of great service	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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