The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 130

For it cannot be denied that Prince Mirliflor was a desperate flirt, and as fickle as the wind; so much so, that by the time he arrived at his eighteenth birthday there was not a heart left for him to conquer in his father’s kingdom--they were all his own, and he was tired of everyone!

Who acts: Mirliflor, Prince, fairies · What happens: not deny, be, arrive, leave, conquer · To what, where: heart, desperate flirt, eighteenth birthday, kingdom

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 (Mirliflor, Prince, fairies), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	6 denied	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 denied	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 denied	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 denied	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 denied	aux:pass
6	denied	deny	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 own	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 flirt	mark
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Mirliflor	nmod:desc
9	Mirliflor	Mirliflor	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 flirt	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 flirt	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 flirt	det
12	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flirt	amod
13	flirt	flirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 denied	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fickle	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fickle	cc
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 fickle	advmod
17	fickle	fickle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flirt	conj
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 wind	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wind	det
20	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fickle	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 so	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADV	_	24 so	advmod
24	so	so	ADV	_	6 denied	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 arrived	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 arrived	mark
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 time	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 arrived	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 arrived	nsubj
31	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 denied	conj
32	at	at	ADP	_	35 birthday	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 birthday	nmod:poss
34	eighteenth	eighteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 birthday	amod
35	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 arrived	obl
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 was	expl
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 birthday	acl:relcl
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 heart	advmod
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 heart	det
40	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 was	nsubj
41	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 heart	acl
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 left	obl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 conquer	mark
45	conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 left	advcl
46	in	in	ADP	_	50 kingdom	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 father	nmod:poss
48	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 kingdom	nmod:poss
49	’s	's	PART	_	48 father	case
50	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 conquer	obl
51	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 denied	punct
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 own	nsubj
53	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 own	cop
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 own	det:predet
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 own	nmod:poss
56	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 tired	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 tired	cc
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 tired	nsubj
60	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 tired	cop
61	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 own	conj
62	of	of	ADP	_	63 everyone	case
63	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	61 tired	obl
64	!	!	PUNCT	_	56 own	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not deny	can · passive		heart				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	is a	past	Mirliflor Prince	a desperate flirt				tree rules
3	be		Mirliflor Prince not said here				as the wind	tree rules
4	arrive	past	Prince		Prince's eighteenth birthday	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	leave	participle		a heart not said here			for Prince	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for he=Recipient
6	conquer	to-infinitive			Prince's father's kingdom			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	fairies = fairy				own property	tree rules
8	is	past	Prince				of everyone; tired property	tree rules

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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