The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 101

He would not, however, surprise her, but told her, with a great deal of respect, the orders he had received from the Queen-mother.

Who acts: kid · What happens: not surprise, tell, receive, deal · To what, where: queen, orders, respect · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kid), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 surprise	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 surprise	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 surprise	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 not	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	7 surprise	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	surprise	surprise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 surprise	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 surprise	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 deal	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 deal	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 deal	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 deal	amod
17	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 respect	case
19	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 deal	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 received	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 orders	det
22	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 received	nsubj:pass
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 received	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 received	aux
25	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 deal	acl
26	from	from	ADP	_	30 mother	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mother	det
28	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 mother	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Queen	punct
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 received	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 surprise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not surprise	would	kid	queen		however property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	kid not said here		queen		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	receive	past · perfect · passive		the orders		from the Queen mother	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from mother=Source
4	deal			respect			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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