The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 20

But it was too late now to do anything but wish vainly that he had stayed on shore, and to grow heartily weary of the boat and the sea and everything connected with it.

Who acts: wind, Prince · What happens: be, wish, stay, grow, connect · To what, where: shore

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 do	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 late	advmod
5	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 now	advmod
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 do	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 grow	advcl
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 do	obj
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 wish	cc
11	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 do	conj
12	vainly	vainly	ADV	_	11 wish	advmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 stayed	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stayed	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stayed	aux
16	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 wish	advcl
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 shore	case
18	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stayed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grow	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 grow	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 grow	mark
22	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	24 weary	advmod
24	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grow	xcomp
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 boat	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 boat	det
27	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 weary	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sea	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sea	det
30	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 boat	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 everything	cc
32	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 boat	conj
33	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 everything	acl
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 connected	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 grow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	wind		now	do property	tree rules
2	wish	present	wind not said here			vainly property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	stay	past · perfect	Prince	shore			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location
4	grow	to-infinitive				weary property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	connect	participle				with wind	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with it=Co-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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