The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 14

Even the mothers who had daughters of their own could not help allowing that the princess was much more beautiful and graceful than any of them; and, as for the fathers, if one of them ever beheld her by accident he could talk of nothing else for a whole day afterwards.

Who acts: mothers, daughters, princess, one, king · What happens: have, not help, allow, be, behold, talk · To what, where: daughter

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mothers, daughters, princess, 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	Even	even	ADV	_	3 mothers	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mothers	det
3	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 help	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 own	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 own	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 daughters	nmod
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 help	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 help	advmod
12	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	ccomp
13	allowing	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 help	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 beautiful	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 princess	det
16	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beautiful	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 beautiful	cop
18	much	much	ADV	_	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 beautiful	advmod
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 allowing	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 graceful	cc
22	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 beautiful	conj
23	than	than	ADP	_	24 any	case
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 graceful	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 any	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 beheld	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 beheld	cc
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 and	punct
30	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	33 fathers	case
31	for	for	ADP	_	30 as	fixed
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fathers	det
33	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 beheld	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fathers	punct
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 beheld	mark
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 beheld	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 one	nmod
39	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	40 beheld	advmod
40	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 beheld	obj
42	by	by	ADP	_	43 accident	case
43	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 talk	obl
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 talk	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 talk	aux
46	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 beheld	advcl
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 nothing	case
48	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	46 talk	obl
49	else	else	ADV	_	48 nothing	advmod
50	for	for	ADP	_	53 day	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 day	det
52	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 day	amod
53	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 talk	obl
54	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	46 talk	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the mothers				tree rules
2	not help	could	daughters of mothers's own				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	allow not said to happen	gerund	daughters of mothers's own not said here				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
4	is	past	the princess			beautiful property	tree rules
5	be		the princess not said here			than any	tree rules
6	behold a condition, not said to happen	past	one of mothers	daughter	ever	as the fathers	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
7	talk	could	king		day	by accident; of nothing; afterwards property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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