The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 127

She had before, at his christening, given him all the graces of mind and body that a prince could possibly require; but now she redoubled her efforts, and spared no pains in adding every imaginable charm and fascination.

Who acts: girl, christening, prince, king · What happens: have, give, require, redouble, spare, add · To what, where: christening, graces, king, body, efforts, pains

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 (girl, christening, prince, king), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 christening	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 christening	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 christening	nmod:poss
7	christening	christening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 given	punct
9	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 christening	acl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 given	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 graces	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 graces	det
13	graces	grace	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 given	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 mind	case
15	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 graces	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 body	cc
17	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mind	conj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 require	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 prince	det
20	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 require	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 require	aux
22	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	23 require	advmod
23	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 body	acl:relcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 redoubled	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 redoubled	cc
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 redoubled	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 redoubled	nsubj
28	redoubled	redouble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 efforts	nmod:poss
30	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 redoubled	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 spared	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 spared	cc
33	spared	spare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 redoubled	conj
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 pains	det
35	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 spared	obj
36	in	in	SCONJ	_	37 adding	mark
37	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 spared	advcl
38	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	40 charm	det
39	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 charm	amod
40	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 adding	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fascination	cc
42	fascination	fascination	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 charm	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	girl			king's christening		before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	give	participle	king's christening not said here	all graces of mind and body	king				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient grace=Theme
3	require	could	a prince	body				possibly property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Precondition
4	redouble	past	girl	girl's efforts			now		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent effort=Patient
5	spare	past	girl not said here	no pains					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent pain=Asset
6	add speech: assert	gerund	girl not said here	every imaginable charm and fascination					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Patient
7	christen		king						nom christening «act transitive»: poss=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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