The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 19

Outside she noticed a youth who was handsomer than any prince she had ever seen, and in a moment she knew him to be the little boy she had once played with.

Who acts: princess, youth · What happens: notice, be, see, know, play · To what, where: prince, king, little boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, youth), 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	Outside	outside	ADV	_	3 noticed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 noticed	nsubj
3	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handsomer	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 handsomer	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 handsomer	cop
8	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 noticed	parataxis
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 prince	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handsomer	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seen	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	aux
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 seen	advmod
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 prince	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 knew	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 moment	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 moment	det
20	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 knew	obl
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 knew	nsubj
22	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 noticed	parataxis
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 knew	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	28 boy	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 boy	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boy	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 boy	amod
28	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 knew	ccomp
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 played	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 played	aux
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 played	advmod
32	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 boy	acl:relcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	32 played	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past	princess			outside property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	a youth			than any prince; handsome property	tree rules
3	see	past · perfect	princess	any prince not said here	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus
4	know	past	princess	king	moment		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	is a	to-infinitive		the little boy			tree rules
6	play	past · perfect	princess	the little boy not said here		once property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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 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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