The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 16

The way in which the princess smiled when she said this gave Niels some hope that things might not be bad for him after all, and he was yet more encouraged when he thought of the words engraver on the horn, though the last line still seemed too good to be true.

Who acts: princess, way, some, things, last line · What happens: smile, say, give, hope, not be, be · To what, where: this, Niels, engraver · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, way, some, things), 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 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 which	case
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 smiled	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smiled	nsubj
7	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 way	acl:relcl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 said	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 smiled	advcl
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 said	obj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 gave	iobj
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 hope	nsubj
15	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 gave	ccomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 bad	mark
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bad	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 bad	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 bad	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 bad	cop
21	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hope	ccomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bad	obl
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 bad	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 encouraged	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 encouraged	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 encouraged	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 encouraged	cop
30	yet	yet	ADV	_	32 encouraged	advmod
31	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 encouraged	advmod
32	encouraged	encouraged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hope	conj
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 thought	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 thought	nsubj
35	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 encouraged	advcl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 words	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 words	det
38	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 thought	obl
39	engraver	engraver	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 thought	xcomp
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 horn	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 horn	det
42	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 engraver	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 seemed	punct
44	though	though	SCONJ	_	49 seemed	mark
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 line	det
46	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 line	amod
47	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 seemed	nsubj
48	still	still	ADV	_	49 seemed	advmod
49	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hope	conj
50	too	too	ADV	_	51 good	advmod
51	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 seemed	xcomp
52	to	to	PART	_	54 true	mark
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 true	cop
54	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 good	advcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	smile	past	the princess				in the way	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in which=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	princess	this				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
3	give	past	the way		Niels			tree rules
4	hope	present	some					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	not is	might	things			after all	for way; bad property	tree rules
6	is	past	way			yet	encouraged property	tree rules
7	think speech: other	past	way	engraver on the horn			of the words	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	seem	past	the last line			still	good property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
9	is	to-infinitive	the last line not said here				true 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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