The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 97

The prince stood and watched him for a little, till the bald-headed man looked up and said to him: “Dear brother, what surprises you so much?”

Who acts: prince, headed man, Dear brother · What happens: stand, watch, look up, say, surprise · To what, where: Prince, Dear brother, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, headed man, Dear brother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 watched	cc
5	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 watched	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 little	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 little	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 watched	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 looked	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
13	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 headed	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 bald	punct
15	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looked	nsubj
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 looked	compound:prt
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 brother	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 brother	punct
25	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 brother	amod
26	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 surprises	punct
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 surprises	nsubj
29	surprises	surprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 brother	acl:relcl
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 surprises	obj
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADV	_	29 surprises	advmod
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the prince				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	watch	past	the prince not said here	Prince		for a little	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Location for little=Theme
3	look up	past	the headed man				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	say speech: ask	past	the prince not said here	Dear brother	man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	surprise in a quote	present	Dear brother	man			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

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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