The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 113

He presently proposed to Balanice that they should spend a few days at one of their palaces in the country; and to this she willingly agreed, since her grief made the gaiety of the capital distasteful to her.

Who acts: king, feelings, Queen, grief · What happens: propose, spend, agree, make · To what, where: Balanice, gaiety

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, feelings, Queen, grief), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 proposed	nsubj
2	presently	presently	ADV	_	3 proposed	advmod
3	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Balanice	case
5	Balanice	Balanice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 proposed	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 spend	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spend	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 spend	aux
9	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 proposed	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 days	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spend	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 one	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 spend	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 palaces	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 palaces	nmod:poss
17	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 country	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 country	det
20	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 palaces	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 agreed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 agreed	cc
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 this	case
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 agreed	obl
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 agreed	nsubj
26	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	27 agreed	advmod
27	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 proposed	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 made	punct
29	since	since	SCONJ	_	32 made	mark
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 grief	nmod:poss
31	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	nsubj
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 agreed	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 gaiety	det
34	gaiety	gaiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 capital	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 capital	det
37	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gaiety	nmod
38	distasteful	distasteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 made	xcomp
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 her	case
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 distasteful	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 proposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past	king		Balanice		presently property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to balanice=Recipient clause=Topic
2	spend	should	feelings = feeling			day	at one of feelings's palaces in the country	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	agree speech: agree	past	Queen				to this; willingly property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	Queen's grief	the gaiety of the capital			distasteful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gaiety=Product

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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