The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 129

In truth, he was a charming young fellow, since the Fairy had given him the best heart in the world as well as the best head, and had left nothing to be desired but--constancy.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, give, leave, desire · To what, where: charming young fellow, truth, Fairy, Prince

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 (Prince), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 truth	case
2	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fellow	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 truth	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fellow	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fellow	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fellow	det
7	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fellow	compound
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fellow	amod
9	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 given	punct
11	since	since	SCONJ	_	15 given	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Fairy	det
13	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 given	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 given	aux
15	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fellow	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 given	iobj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 heart	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 heart	amod
19	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 given	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 world	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 world	det
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heart	nmod
23	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	28 head	cc
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 as	fixed
25	as	as	ADP	_	23 as	fixed
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 head	det
27	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 head	amod
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 given	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 nothing	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 nothing	cc
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 left	aux
32	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 nothing	amod
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 fellow	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	36 desired	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 desired	aux:pass
36	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 nothing	acl
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 constancy	cc
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 constancy	punct
39	constancy	constancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 desired	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	Prince	a charming young fellow		truth	tree rules
2	give	past · perfect · passive		the Fairy	Prince		tree rules
3	leave	past · perfect					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	desire	to-infinitive · passive	Prince not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»

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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