The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 25

I know quite well how delightful it is to be thoroughly idle, for when my husband and I were King and Queen we did nothing at all from morning to night, and I sincerely hope that it will not be long before those happy days will come again for us.

Who acts: I, child, husband · What happens: know, be, hope, not be, come · To what, where: King

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, child, husband), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 well	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 delightful	advmod
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 delightful	advmod
6	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 know	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 idle	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 idle	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	12 idle	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 idle	cop
11	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	12 idle	advmod
12	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 know	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 when	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 when	case
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 idle	parataxis
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 husband	nmod:poss
17	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 King	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 I	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 husband	conj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 King	cop
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 did	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Queen	cc
23	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 King	conj
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 did	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 when	advcl:relcl
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 did	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 nothing	nmod
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 morning	case
30	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 did	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 night	case
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 did	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hope	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hope	cc
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 hope	nsubj
36	sincerely	sincerely	ADV	_	37 hope	advmod
37	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 know	conj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 come	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 come	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 come	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 long	advmod
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 long	cop
43	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 come	advmod
44	before	before	SCONJ	_	49 come	mark
45	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	47 days	det
46	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 days	amod
47	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 come	nsubj
48	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 come	aux
49	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 hope	ccomp
50	again	again	ADV	_	49 come	advmod
51	for	for	ADP	_	52 us	case
52	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 come	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	child			idle, thoroughly property	tree rules
3	is a	past	my husband	King and Queen			tree rules
4	hope	present	I			sincerely property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	not is	infinitive				long property	tree rules
6	come	future	child		again	for us	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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