The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 31

The King turned pale, and the other Princes stood silent and sorrowful, for nobody could deny that this was the most marvelous piece of muslin that was to be found in the world.

Who acts: King, other Princes, nobody, this · What happens: turn, stand, deny, be, find · To what, where: marvelous piece, muslin, world

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, 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 (King, other Princes, nobody, this), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turned	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stood	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stood	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princes	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Princes	amod
9	Princes	Prince	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 stood	nsubj
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
11	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stood	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sorrowful	cc
13	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 silent	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 deny	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 deny	mark
16	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 deny	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 deny	aux
18	deny	deny	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 stood	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 piece	mark
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 piece	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 piece	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 piece	det
23	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 marvelous	advmod
24	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 piece	amod
25	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deny	ccomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 muslin	case
27	muslin	muslin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 piece	nmod
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 found	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 found	aux:pass
30	to	to	PART	_	32 found	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 found	aux:pass
32	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 muslin	acl:relcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 world	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 world	det
35	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 found	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the King			pale property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past	the other Princes			silent property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	deny	could	nobody				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	this	the marvelous piece		of muslin	tree rules
5	find	past · passive	this not said here	muslin	the world		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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