The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 101

By dint of spying through keyholes and listening at doors, he learned that the king, old and ugly though he was, had fallen in love with the Princess Bella-Flor, who would have nothing to say to him, and had hidden herself in some mountain castle, no one knew where.

Who acts: dint, king, one · What happens: spy, listen, learn, fall, have, say · To what, where: keyholes, king, love, nothing, Princess, mountain castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (dint, king, one), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 dint	case
2	dint	dint	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 learned	obl
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 spying	mark
4	spying	spy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 dint	acl
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 keyholes	case
6	keyholes	keyhole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spying	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 listening	cc
8	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 spying	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 doors	case
10	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 listening	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dint	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 learned	nsubj
13	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 old	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 old	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 old	punct
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 learned	ccomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ugly	cc
20	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 old	conj
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 fallen	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fallen	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fallen	aux:pass
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fallen	punct
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fallen	aux
26	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 have	advcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 love	case
28	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fallen	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	34 Flor	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Flor	det
31	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Flor	nsubj
32	Bella	Bella	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Flor	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 Flor	punct
34	Flor	Flor	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 have	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 have	punct
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 have	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 have	aux
38	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 learned	ccomp
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	38 have	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 say	mark
41	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 nothing	acl
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 say	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 hidden	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 hidden	cc
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 hidden	aux
47	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 learned	parataxis
48	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	47 hidden	obj
49	in	in	ADP	_	52 castle	case
50	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	52 castle	det
51	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 castle	compound
52	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hidden	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 knew	punct
54	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	55 one	det
55	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 knew	nsubj
56	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 hidden	conj
57	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	56 knew	advmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	spy	gerund	dint not said here			keyholes		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
2	listen	gerund	dint not said here				at doors	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at door=Theme
3	learn	past	king				by dint	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fall	past · perfect · passive		king		love		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Result
5	have	would		nothing			with the Bella Flor	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		nothing not said here	king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
7	hide	past · perfect		Princess		some mountain castle		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in castle=Location
8	know	past	no one					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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