The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 9

As these two children would possibly inherit the kingdom, it was natural that their people should take a great interest in them, and it fell out that all the tranquil and peace-loving citizens desired that Placida should one day be their Queen, while the rash and quarrelsome hoped great things for Vivien.

Who acts: two children, people, interest, tranquil citizens, Placida, rash · What happens: inherit, be, take, fall out, desire, hope · To what, where: kingdom, great interest, Queen, great things

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 (two children, people, interest, tranquil citizens), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	7 inherit	mark
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 children	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 children	nummod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 inherit	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 inherit	aux
6	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	7 inherit	advmod
7	inherit	inherit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 natural	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kingdom	det
9	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 inherit	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 inherit	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 natural	expl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 natural	cop
13	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 take	mark
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 people	nmod:poss
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 take	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 take	aux
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 natural	csubj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 interest	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 interest	amod
21	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 interest	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fell	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 natural	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 fell	compound:prt
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 desired	mark
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 citizens	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 citizens	det
32	tranquil	tranquil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 citizens	amod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 loving	cc
34	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 loving	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 peace	punct
36	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tranquil	conj
37	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 desired	nsubj
38	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fell	advcl
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 Queen	mark
40	Placida	Placida	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Queen	nsubj
41	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 Queen	aux
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 day	nummod
43	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 Queen	nsubj
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 Queen	cop
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 Queen	nmod:poss
46	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 desired	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 hoped	punct
48	while	while	SCONJ	_	53 hoped	mark
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 rash	det
50	rash	rash	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 hoped	nsubj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 quarrelsome	cc
52	quarrelsome	quarrelsome	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 rash	conj
53	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 desired	conj
54	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 things	amod
55	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 hoped	obj
56	for	for	ADP	_	57 Vivien	case
57	Vivien	Vivien	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 things	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 natural	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	inherit	would	this two children	the kingdom	possibly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
2	is	past			natural property	tree rules
3	take	should	children's people	a great interest	in children = child	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Value in they=Location
4	fall out	past	interest			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	desire	past	all tranquil citizens			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	is a	should	Placida	children's Queen		tree rules
7	hope	past	the rash and quarrelsome	great things	for Vivien	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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