The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 37

‘But whatever they found for me to do it was always the same thing, I spoilt and mismanaged it all, and was so successful in provoking even the most patient people, that one day I ran away from the farm, for I was really afraid the Queen would be obliged to beat me.

Who acts: sheep, me, flock, I · What happens: find, do, be, spoilt, mismanage, provoke · To what, where: whatever, same thing, flock, patient people, one day, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sheep, me, flock, I), 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	_	3 whatever	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 whatever	cc
3	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 found	obj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 do	mark
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 found	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thing	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thing	cop
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 thing	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thing	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thing	amod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spoilt	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 spoilt	nsubj
18	spoilt	spoilt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 mismanaged	cc
20	mismanaged	mismanage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spoilt	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 mismanaged	obj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 it	det
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 successful	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 successful	cc
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 successful	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 successful	advmod
27	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 found	parataxis
28	in	in	SCONJ	_	29 provoking	mark
29	provoking	provoke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 successful	advcl
30	even	even	ADV	_	34 people	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 people	det
32	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 patient	advmod
33	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 people	amod
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 provoking	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 day	punct
36	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 day	det
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 day	nummod
38	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 successful	conj
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 ran	nsubj
40	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 day	acl:relcl
41	away	away	ADV	_	40 ran	advmod
42	from	from	ADP	_	44 farm	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 farm	det
44	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 away	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 afraid	punct
46	for	for	SCONJ	_	50 afraid	mark
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 afraid	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 afraid	cop
49	really	really	ADV	_	50 afraid	advmod
50	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 successful	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Queen	det
52	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 obliged	nsubj
53	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 obliged	aux
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 obliged	aux:pass
55	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 afraid	ccomp
56	to	to	PART	_	57 beat	mark
57	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 obliged	xcomp
58	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 beat	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	sheep	whatever		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent whatever=Attribute clause=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive	me			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	flock	the same thing	always property	tree rules
4	spoilt	past	I			tree rules
5	mismanage	past	I not said here	flock		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	is	past			successful property	tree rules
7	provoke	gerund		the patient people		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	run away	past	I	that one day not said here	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme day=Trajectory
9	is	past	I		afraid property	tree rules
10	oblige	would · passive		the Queen		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
11	beat	to-infinitive		me		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=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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