The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 67

‘After you had gone away,’ said she, ‘they tried to make me learn how to govern the kingdom, which wearied me to death, so that I begged and prayed Lolotte to take me away with her, and this she presently did, but very reluctantly.

Who acts: you, Placida, adventures, me, kingdom, I · What happens: go away, say, try, make, learn, govern · To what, where: me, kingdom, Lolotte · 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, Placida, adventures, me), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
2	After	after	SCONJ	_	5 gone	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tried	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 tried	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tried	nsubj
14	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 make	mark
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tried	xcomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 make	obj
18	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 make	xcomp
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 govern	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 govern	mark
21	govern	govern	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 learn	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 kingdom	det
23	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 govern	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wearied	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 wearied	nsubj
26	wearied	weary	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 kingdom	acl:relcl
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 wearied	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 death	case
29	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wearied	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 begged	punct
31	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 begged	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 so	fixed
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 begged	nsubj
34	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 govern	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 prayed	cc
36	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 begged	conj
37	Lolotte	Lolotte	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 prayed	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 take	mark
39	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 prayed	xcomp
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 take	obj
41	away	away	ADV	_	39 take	advmod
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 her	case
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 take	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 did	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 did	cc
46	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 did	nsubj
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 did	nsubj
48	presently	presently	ADV	_	49 did	advmod
49	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 reluctantly	punct
51	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 reluctantly	cc
52	very	very	ADV	_	53 reluctantly	advmod
53	reluctantly	reluctantly	ADV	_	49 did	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go away	past · perfect	you		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Placida			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	try	past	adventures = adventure			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	adventures = adventure not said here	me		tree rules
5	learn not said to happen	infinitive	me not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	govern	to-infinitive		the kingdom		vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
7	weary	past	the kingdom	me	to death	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
8	beg speech: request	past	I			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
9	pray	past	I not said here	Lolotte		tree rules
10	take away	to-infinitive	I not said here	me	with Placida; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
11	do	past	this		presently, reluctantly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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