The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 18

And when they answered that nobody had ever before seen such lovely princesses he seemed quite annoyed.

Who acts: ladies, nobody, prince · What happens: answer, see, seem · To what, where: such lovely princesses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, nobody, prince), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 answered	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 seen	mark
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 seen	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 before	advmod
9	before	before	ADV	_	10 seen	advmod
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 answered	ccomp
11	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 princesses	amod
12	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 princesses	amod
13	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seen	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seemed	nsubj
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 princesses	acl:relcl
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 annoyed	advmod
17	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 seemed	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	ladies = lady			tree rules
2	see	past · perfect	nobody	such lovely princesses	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
3	seem	past	prince	such lovely princesses not said here	annoyed property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme princess=Attribute

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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