The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 159

She had to give a full account of how she had stolen Rosanella from her cradle, and divided her character into twelve parts, that each might charm Prince Mirliflor, and when once more united might cure him of his inconstancy once and for ever.

Who acts: Paridamie · What happens: have, give, steal, divide, cure · To what, where: full account, Rosanella, cradle, character, twelve parts, 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 (Paridamie), 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	to	to	PART	_	4 give	mark
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 account	det
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 account	amod
7	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 stolen	mark
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 stolen	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stolen	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stolen	aux
12	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 account	acl
13	Rosanella	Rosanella	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 stolen	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 cradle	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 cradle	nmod:poss
16	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stolen	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 divided	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 divided	cc
19	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 character	nmod:poss
21	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 divided	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 parts	case
23	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 parts	nummod
24	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 divided	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Mirliflor	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 Mirliflor	mark
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	29 charm	det
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 charm	aux
29	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Mirliflor	nsubj
30	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Mirliflor	nmod:desc
31	Mirliflor	Mirliflor	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 divided	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 cure	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 cure	cc
34	when	when	SCONJ	_	37 united	mark
35	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	36 more	advmod
36	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 united	advmod
37	united	united	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 cure	advcl
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 cure	aux
39	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 cure	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 inconstancy	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 inconstancy	nmod:poss
43	inconstancy	inconstancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cure	obl
44	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	39 cure	advmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 ever	cc
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 ever	case
47	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	44 once	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Paridamie				tree rules
2	give	to-infinitive	Paridamie not said here	a full account			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme
3	steal	past · perfect	Paridamie	Rosanella	Paridamie's cradle		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rosanella=Theme from cradle=Source
4	divide	past	Paridamie not said here	Paridamie's character	twelve parts	Mirliflor Prince obl	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Theme
5	cure	might	Paridamie not said here	Prince		of Prince's inconstancy; once property	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer he=Source of inconstancy=Theme

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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