The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 177

So the princess was summoned, and, somewhat to their surprise, she seemed to take the news very calmly; next Nur Mahomed was informed, and he was greatly startled, but of course he could but be delighted at the great and unexpected honour which he thought the king had done him.

Who acts: princess, great honour, king, hands · What happens: summon, seem, take, inform, startle, delight · To what, where: princess, surprise, news, Nur, great honour · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, great honour, king, hands), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 summoned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 summoned	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 summoned	aux:pass
5	summoned	summon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 informed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 informed	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 surprise	punct
9	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	12 surprise	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 surprise	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 surprise	nmod:poss
12	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 informed	nsubj:pass
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seemed	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seemed	nsubj
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 surprise	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 take	mark
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 seemed	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 news	det
19	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 calmly	advmod
21	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	17 take	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 Nur	punct
23	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Nur	amod
24	Nur	Nur	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 informed	nsubj:pass
25	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Nur	flat
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 informed	aux:pass
27	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 summoned	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 startled	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 startled	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 startled	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 startled	aux:pass
32	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	33 startled	advmod
33	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 summoned	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 could	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 could	cc
36	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	39 could	advmod
37	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 of	fixed
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 could	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 startled	conj
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 delighted	cc
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 delighted	aux:pass
42	delighted	delight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 could	conj
43	at	at	ADP	_	48 honour	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 honour	det
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 honour	amod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 unexpected	cc
47	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 great	conj
48	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 delighted	obl
49	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 thought	nsubj
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 thought	nsubj
51	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 honour	acl:relcl
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 king	det
53	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 done	nsubj
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 done	aux
55	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 thought	ccomp
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 done	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 summoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	summon	past · passive		the princess			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	seem	past	princess	hands's surprise not said here			tree rules
3	take	to-infinitive	princess not said here	the news		calmly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme
4	inform speech: other	past · passive		hands's surprise			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	startle	past · passive		Nur		greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
6	delight	infinitive · passive			the great honour		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
7	think speech: other	past	the great honour				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	do	past · perfect	the king	Nur			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
9	surprise		hands = hand				nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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