The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 74

This was a great aggravation to the Prince, who was not accustomed to keep his ideas to himself, and he positively found himself wishing for his old friend Patience.

Who acts: This, Prince · What happens: be, not accustom, keep, find, wish · To what, where: great aggravation, ideas, Prince

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 (This, Prince), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 aggravation	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 aggravation	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 aggravation	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 aggravation	amod
5	aggravation	aggravation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Prince	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 aggravation	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 accustomed	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 accustomed	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 accustomed	aux:pass
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 accustomed	advmod
13	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 aggravation	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 keep	mark
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 accustomed	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 ideas	nmod:poss
17	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 keep	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 himself	case
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 keep	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 found	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 found	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 found	nsubj
23	positively	positively	ADV	_	24 found	advmod
24	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 accustomed	parataxis
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 found	obj
26	wishing	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 found	xcomp
27	for	for	ADP	_	31 Patience	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 Patience	nmod:poss
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Patience	amod
30	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Patience	compound
31	Patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wishing	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 aggravation	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	a great aggravation		to the Prince	tree rules
2	not accustom	past · passive		a great aggravation			tree rules
3	keep	to-infinitive		Prince's ideas	Prince		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme
4	find	past	Prince	Prince		positively property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
5	wish	gerund	Prince not said here			for Prince's old friend Patience	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for patience=Theme

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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