The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 62

At first the king could not believe that this was the small beast who had seemed so friendly on the shore of the lake of quicksilver but then he knew very little of necromancy, and had never studied the art of expanding and contracting his body.

Who acts: king, this, small beast, art · What happens: not believe, be, seem, know, not study, expand · To what, where: small beast, shore, little, art, body · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, this, small beast, art), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 believe	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 believe	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 believe	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 believe	advmod
7	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 beast	mark
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 beast	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 beast	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beast	det
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beast	amod
13	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 believe	ccomp
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 seemed	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seemed	aux
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 beast	acl:relcl
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 friendly	advmod
18	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 seemed	xcomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 shore	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shore	det
21	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seemed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 lake	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lake	det
24	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shore	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 quicksilver	case
26	quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lake	nmod
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 knew	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 knew	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 knew	nsubj
30	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seemed	conj
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 little	advmod
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 knew	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 necromancy	case
34	necromancy	necromancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 little	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 studied	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 studied	cc
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 studied	aux
38	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	39 studied	advmod
39	studied	study	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 believe	parataxis
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 art	det
41	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 studied	obj
42	of	of	SCONJ	_	43 expanding	mark
43	expanding	expand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 art	acl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 contracting	cc
45	contracting	contract	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 expanding	conj
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 body	nmod:poss
47	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 contracting	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not believe	could	the king					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	this	the small beast				tree rules
3	seem	past	the small beast		the shore of the lake of quicksilver		friendly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	know	past	king	little		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus
5	not study	past · perfect		the art				vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Topic
6	expand	gerund	the art not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	contract	gerund	the art not said here	king's body				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent body=Patient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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