The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 38

However, the king paid no heed to her tears and prayers, and before many days were over the wedding was celebrated with great splendour, though the bridegroom had not taken the trouble to wash himself, and was as dirty as before.

Who acts: king, many days · What happens: pay, be, celebrate, not take, wash · To what, where: heed, bridegroom, king

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, many days), 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	_	5 paid	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	nsubj
5	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 heed	det
7	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 tears	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tears	nmod:poss
10	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 paid	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 prayers	cc
12	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tears	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 celebrated	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 celebrated	cc
15	before	before	ADP	_	21 wedding	case
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 days	amod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 wedding	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wedding	cop
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 wedding	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wedding	det
21	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 celebrated	obl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 celebrated	aux:pass
23	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 paid	parataxis
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 splendour	case
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 splendour	amod
26	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 celebrated	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 taken	punct
28	though	though	SCONJ	_	33 taken	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bridegroom	det
30	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 taken	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 taken	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 taken	advmod
33	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 celebrated	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 trouble	det
35	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 taken	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 wash	mark
37	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 taken	advcl
38	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 wash	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 dirty	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 dirty	cc
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 dirty	cop
42	as	as	ADV	_	43 dirty	advmod
43	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 paid	parataxis
44	as	as	ADP	_	45 before	case
45	before	before	ADV	_	43 dirty	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	the king	no heed		to princess's tears and prayers; however property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset
2	is	past	many days		before the wedding		tree rules
3	celebrate	past · passive				with great splendour	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»
4	not take	past · perfect · passive		the bridegroom			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme trouble=Destination
5	wash	to-infinitive		king			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
6	is	past				dirty 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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