The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 26

Now, some people might not have liked the notion of being made happy by a serpent with the head of a woman, but the Kinglet had no such fears.

Who acts: people, serpent, Kinglet · What happens: not like, make, have · To what, where: notion, such fears

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, serpent, Kinglet), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 liked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 liked	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 liked	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 liked	advmod
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 liked	aux
8	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 notion	det
10	notion	notion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 liked	obj
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 made	mark
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 made	aux:pass
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 notion	acl
14	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 made	xcomp
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 serpent	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 serpent	det
17	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 head	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 head	det
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 serpent	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 woman	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 woman	det
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 head	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Kinglet	det
27	Kinglet	Kinglet	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 liked	advcl
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 fears	det
30	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fears	amod
31	fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not like	might · perfect	some people	the notion	now		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot notion=Theme
2	make	gerund · passive	a serpent with the head of a woman	the notion not said here		happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	have	past	the Kinglet	no such fears			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient

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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