The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 135

For the first time in his life he really loved, though the object of his devotion was not one person, but twelve, to whom he was equally attached, and even Surcantine was deceived into thinking that this was indeed the height of inconstancy.

Who acts: Prince, object, this · What happens: love, not be, attach, deceive, think, be · To what, where: twelve, one person, Prince, Surcantine, height · Speech: someone speaks here

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, object, this), 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	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loved	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 life	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	nmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 loved	nsubj
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 loved	advmod
10	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 person	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 person	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 object	det
14	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 person	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 devotion	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 devotion	nmod:poss
17	devotion	devotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 object	nmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 person	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 person	advmod
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 person	nummod
21	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loved	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 twelve	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 twelve	cc
24	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 loved	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 whom	punct
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 whom	case
27	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 loved	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 attached	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 attached	aux:pass
30	equally	equally	ADV	_	31 attached	advmod
31	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 whom	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 deceived	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 deceived	cc
34	even	even	ADV	_	35 Surcantine	advmod
35	Surcantine	Surcantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 deceived	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 deceived	aux:pass
37	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 loved	conj
38	into	into	SCONJ	_	39 thinking	mark
39	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 deceived	advcl
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 height	mark
41	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 height	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 height	cop
43	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	45 height	advmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 height	det
45	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 thinking	ccomp
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 inconstancy	case
47	inconstancy	inconstancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 height	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	Prince	twelve	time		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is a	past	the object of Prince's devotion	one person			tree rules
3	attach	past · passive		Prince		equally property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	deceive	past · passive		Surcantine			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	think speech: other	gerund					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	this	the height		of inconstancy; indeed property	tree rules
7	devote		Prince				nom devotion «feeling 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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