The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 157

However, it became absolutely necessary that he should pay his respects, and he had scarcely been five minutes in her presence before it seemed to him that she combined in her own charming person all the gifts and graces which had so attracted him in the twelve Rose-maidens whose loss he had so truly mourned; and after all it is really more satisfactory to make love to one person at a time.

Who acts: news, Prince, tone, loss, all · What happens: become, pay, be, seem, combine, attract · To what, where: respects, five minutes, presence, joy, gifts, twelve Rose maidens

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 (news, Prince, tone, loss), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 became	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	6 necessary	advmod
6	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 became	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 pay	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pay	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pay	aux
10	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 necessary	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 respects	nmod:poss
12	respects	respects	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pay	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seemed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 seemed	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seemed	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seemed	aux
17	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	20 minutes	advmod
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 minutes	cop
19	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 minutes	nummod
20	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 seemed	nsubj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 presence	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 presence	nmod:poss
23	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 minutes	nmod
24	before	before	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 presence	nmod
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seemed	obl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 combined	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 combined	nsubj
31	combined	combine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seemed	advcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	36 person	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 person	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 person	amod
35	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 person	compound
36	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 combined	obl
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 gifts	det:predet
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 gifts	det
39	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 person	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 graces	cc
41	graces	grace	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 gifts	conj
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 attracted	nsubj:pass
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 attracted	aux
44	so	so	ADV	_	45 attracted	advmod
45	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 gifts	acl:relcl
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 attracted	obj
47	in	in	ADP	_	52 maidens	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 maidens	det
49	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 maidens	nummod
50	Rose	Rose	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 maidens	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 Rose	punct
52	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 attracted	obl
53	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	54 loss	nmod:poss
54	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 maidens	conj
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 had	nsubj
56	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 loss	acl:relcl
57	so	so	ADV	_	59 mourned	advmod
58	truly	truly	ADV	_	59 mourned	advmod
59	mourned	mourn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 had	xcomp
60	;	;	PUNCT	_	68 satisfactory	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 satisfactory	cc
62	after	after	ADP	_	63 all	case
63	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	68 satisfactory	nsubj
64	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 all	nmod
65	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	68 satisfactory	cop
66	really	really	ADV	_	67 more	advmod
67	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	68 satisfactory	advmod
68	satisfactory	satisfactory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 became	parataxis
69	to	to	PART	_	70 make	mark
70	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	68 satisfactory	advcl
71	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 make	obj
72	to	to	ADP	_	74 person	case
73	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	74 person	nummod
74	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 make	obl
75	at	at	ADP	_	77 time	case
76	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	77 time	det
77	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 make	obl
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	news					however, necessary property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	pay	should	Prince	Prince's respects					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset
3	is a	participle		five minutes		tone's presence before news		scarcely property	tree rules
4	seem	past	Prince		joy				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	combine	past	tone					in tone's own charming person all gifts and graces	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	attract	past · perfect · passive		all gifts and graces		the twelve Rose maidens and the twelve Rose maidens and the twelve Rose maidens's loss's loss			tree rules
7	have	past	Prince	the twelve Rose maidens and the twelve Rose maidens and loss's loss's loss not said here					tree rules
8	mourn	participle	the twelve Rose maidens and the twelve Rose maidens and loss's loss's loss not said here					truly property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	is	present	all					satisfactory property	tree rules
10	make	to-infinitive	all not said here	love			time	to one person	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset love=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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