The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 33

Now the queen’s eyes were very sharp, and it seemed to her that the man who stood before her, tall and handsome though he might be, was different in many slight ways, and in one in particular, from the man who had fought the tourney.

Who acts: eyes, it, man, one · What happens: be, seem, stand, fight · To what, where: queen, many slight ways, tourney

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, it, man, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 sharp	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eyes	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 queen	case
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sharp	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sharp	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 sharp	advmod
8	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seemed	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sharp	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seemed	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 tall	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tall	nsubj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 man	acl:relcl
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stood	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tall	punct
23	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 seemed	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 handsome	cc
25	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tall	conj
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	29 be	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 be	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 be	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 handsome	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 different	punct
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 different	cop
32	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 seemed	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 ways	case
34	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ways	amod
35	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ways	amod
36	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 different	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 particular	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 particular	cc
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 one	case
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 particular	nsubj
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 particular	case
42	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sharp	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 man	punct
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 man	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 man	det
46	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 particular	obl
47	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 fought	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 fought	aux
49	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 man	acl:relcl
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 tourney	det
51	tourney	tourney	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 fought	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sharp	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the queen's eyes				now	sharp property	tree rules
2	seem	past	it		queen			tall property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	stand	past	the man				before queen		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location
4	is	past				many slight ways		different property	tree rules
5	be		one					from the man	tree rules
6	fight	past · perfect	the man	the tourney					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tourney=Co-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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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