The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 99

Instantly he guessed who had put it there and why, but he said nothing, and danced so beautifully that the princess was quite delighted with him.

Who acts: Lad, princess · What happens: guess, put, say, dance, be · To what, where: sight, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lad, princess), 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	Instantly	instantly	ADV	_	3 guessed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 guessed	nsubj
3	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 put	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	aux
6	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 guessed	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	obj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 put	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 why	cc
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 put	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 guessed	conj
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 danced	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 danced	cc
18	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 guessed	conj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 beautifully	advmod
20	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	18 danced	advmod
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 delighted	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 princess	det
23	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 delighted	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 delighted	cop
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 delighted	advmod
26	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 danced	advcl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 delighted	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 guessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	guess	past	Lad			instantly property	vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	put	past · perfect		sight	there		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
3	say speech: assert	past	Lad	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
4	dance	past	Lad not said here			beautifully property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	the princess			with Lad; delighted property	tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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