The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 14

He was called Charming, and everyone loved him, excepting a few envious people who were angry at his being the King’s favorite and knowing all the State secrets.

Who acts: everyone, few envious people · What happens: call, love, except, be, know · To what, where: ambassador, few envious people, favorite, State secrets · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone, few envious people), 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	3 called	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	aux:pass
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 loved	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 loved	cc
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 loved	nsubj
8	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 loved	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 excepting	punct
11	excepting	except	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 loved	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 people	det
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 people	amod
14	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 people	amod
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 excepting	obj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 angry	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 angry	cop
18	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 people	acl:relcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	25 favorite	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 favorite	nmod:poss
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 favorite	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 favorite	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 King	case
25	favorite	favorite	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 angry	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 knowing	cc
27	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 excepting	conj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 secrets	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 secrets	det
30	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 secrets	compound
31	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 knowing	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	past · passive		ambassador			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	love	past	everyone	ambassador			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	except	gerund	everyone not said here	a few envious people			tree rules
4	is	past	a few envious people			angry property	tree rules
5	is	gerund			ambassador's favorite		tree rules
6	know	gerund	everyone not said here	all State secrets			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus

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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