The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 12

Prince Vivien was fully aware of the feeling in his favour, but being too honourable to wish to injure his pretty cousin, and perhaps too impatient and volatile to care to think seriously about anything, he suddenly took it into his head that he would go off by himself in search of adventure.

Who acts: Vivien · What happens: be, wish, injure, care, think, take · To what, where: pretty cousin, volatile, head, search, adventure

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vivien), 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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Vivien	nmod:desc
2	Vivien	Vivien	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 aware	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 aware	cop
4	fully	fully	ADV	_	5 aware	advmod
5	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 feeling	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 feeling	det
8	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 aware	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 favour	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 favour	nmod:poss
11	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feeling	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 honourable	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 honourable	cc
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 honourable	cop
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 honourable	advmod
16	honourable	honourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 aware	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 wish	mark
18	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 honourable	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 injure	mark
20	injure	injure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wish	xcomp
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 cousin	nmod:poss
22	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cousin	amod
23	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 injure	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 impatient	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 impatient	cc
26	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	28 impatient	advmod
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 impatient	advmod
28	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 aware	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 volatile	cc
30	volatile	volatile	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 impatient	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 care	mark
32	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 impatient	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 think	mark
34	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 care	xcomp
35	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	34 think	advmod
36	about	about	ADP	_	37 anything	case
37	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 think	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 took	punct
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 took	nsubj
40	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	41 took	advmod
41	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 aware	parataxis
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 took	obj
43	into	into	ADP	_	45 head	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 head	nmod:poss
45	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 took	obl
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 go	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 go	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 go	aux
49	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 took	advcl
50	off	off	ADP	_	49 go	compound:prt
51	by	by	ADP	_	52 himself	case
52	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	49 go	obl
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 search	case
54	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 go	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 adventure	case
56	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 search	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 aware	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Vivien Prince			of the feeling in Vivien's favour; aware, fully property	tree rules
2	is	gerund	Vivien Prince not said here			honourable property	tree rules
3	wish	to-infinitive	Vivien Prince not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	injure not said to happen	to-infinitive	Vivien Prince not said here	Vivien's pretty cousin			tree rules
5	be		Vivien Prince not said here			perhaps property	tree rules
6	care	to-infinitive	Vivien Prince not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Vivien Prince not said here			about anything; seriously property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about anything=Topic
8	take	past	Vivien	volatile	Vivien's head	suddenly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into head=Destination
9	go off	would	Vivien		search of adventure	by Vivien	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by himself=Location
10	favour		Vivien				nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
11	search			adventure			nom search «act transitive»: of=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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