The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 22

To put the finishing touch to his misfortunes he presently found himself becalmed in mid-ocean, a state of affairs which would be considered trying by the most patient of men, so you may imagine how it affected Prince Vivien!

Who acts: you, Prince, touch · What happens: put, find, becalm, consider, try, imagine · To what, where: finishing touch, Prince, mid-ocean, affairs, Vivien · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, Prince, touch), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 put	mark
2	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 imagine	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 touch	det
4	finishing	finishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touch	compound
5	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 misfortunes	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 misfortunes	nmod:poss
8	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
10	presently	presently	ADV	_	11 found	advmod
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 misfortunes	acl:relcl
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 found	obj
13	becalmed	becalm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 found	ccomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 mid-ocean	case
15	mid-ocean	mid-ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 becalmed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 state	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 state	det
18	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mid-ocean	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 affairs	case
20	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 state	nmod
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 considered	nsubj:pass
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 considered	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 considered	aux:pass
24	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 affairs	acl:relcl
25	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 considered	xcomp
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 patient	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 patient	det
28	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 patient	advmod
29	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 trying	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 men	case
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 patient	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 imagine	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	36 imagine	advmod
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 imagine	nsubj
35	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 imagine	aux
36	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	39 affected	advmod
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 affected	nsubj
39	affected	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 imagine	ccomp
40	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Vivien	nmod:desc
41	Vivien	Vivien	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 affected	obj
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	to-infinitive	you not said here	the finishing touch		to Prince's misfortunes	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent touch=Goal
2	find	past	Prince	Prince		presently property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
3	becalm	participle			mid-ocean		tree rules
4	consider	would · passive		affairs			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
5	try	gerund				by the patient of men	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	imagine	may	you				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	affect	past	touch	Vivien Prince			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus vivien=Experiencer

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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