The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 15

True he had been serving the Princess, but she only admired and praised him for his gallant deeds, and seemed no whit nearer bestowing on him the love he so ardently desired, and all the comfort Mousta could give him on the subject was that at least she loved no one else, and with that he had to content himself.

Who acts: True, Princess, gallant, comfort · What happens: serve, admire, praise, deed, seem, bestow · To what, where: Princess, True, whit, love, gallant, subject

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (True, Princess, gallant, comfort), 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	True	true	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 serving	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 serving	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 serving	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 serving	aux
5	serving	serve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 serving	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 admired	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 admired	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 admired	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 admired	advmod
12	admired	admire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 serving	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 praised	cc
14	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 admired	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 praised	obj
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 deeds	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 gallant	nmod:poss
18	gallant	gallant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 deeds	nsubj
19	deeds	deed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 praised	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seemed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 seemed	cc
22	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 admired	parataxis
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 whit	det
24	whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seemed	obj
25	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 whit	amod
26	bestowing	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 nearer	acl
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bestowing	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 love	det
30	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bestowing	obj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 desired	nsubj
32	so	so	ADV	_	34 desired	advmod
33	ardently	ardently	ADV	_	34 desired	advmod
34	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 seemed	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 give	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 give	cc
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 comfort	det:predet
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 comfort	det
39	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 give	nsubj
40	Mousta	Mousta	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 comfort	appos
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 give	aux
42	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 serving	parataxis
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 give	iobj
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 subject	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 subject	det
46	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 give	obl
47	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 serving	conj
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 loved	mark
49	at	at	ADP	_	50 least	case
50	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	52 loved	obl
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 loved	nsubj
52	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 was	advcl
53	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	54 one	det
54	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 loved	obj
55	else	else	ADV	_	54 one	advmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 had	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 had	cc
58	with	with	SCONJ	_	61 had	mark
59	that	that	SCONJ	_	61 had	mark
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 had	nsubj
61	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 serving	conj
62	to	to	PART	_	63 content	mark
63	content	content	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 had	xcomp
64	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	63 content	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 serving	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	serve	past · perfect · progressive	True	the Princess				vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Attribute
2	admire	past	Princess					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	praise	past	Princess not said here	True				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	deed	present	True's gallant					tree rules
5	seem	past		no whit				tree rules
6	bestow	gerund		the love			on True	tree rules
7	desire	participle	gallant				ardently property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	give	could	all comfort		gallant	the subject		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme on subject=Asset
9	be	past	True not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	love	past	comfort	no one		least		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
11	have	past	gallant					tree rules
12	content	to-infinitive	gallant not said here	gallant				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer

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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