The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 37

The King could not see any cause for anger either when the matter was presented to him in this light, and he began to frown very fiercely at the courtiers who had so misrepresented his favorite.

Who acts: King · What happens: not see, present, begin, frown, misrepresent · To what, where: cause, matter, king, light, courtiers

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 (King), 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	5 see	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 cause	det
7	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 anger	case
9	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cause	nmod
10	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 see	advmod
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 presented	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 matter	det
13	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 presented	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 presented	aux:pass
15	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 see	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 presented	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 light	case
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 light	det
20	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 presented	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 frown	mark
26	frown	frown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 fiercely	advmod
28	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	26 frown	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 courtiers	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 courtiers	det
31	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 frown	obl
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 misrepresented	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 misrepresented	aux
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 misrepresented	advmod
35	misrepresented	misrepresent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 courtiers	acl:relcl
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 favorite	nmod:poss
37	favorite	favorite	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 misrepresented	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not see	could	the King	any cause			for anger; either property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cause=Stimulus
2	present	past · passive		the matter	king	this light		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient
3	begin	past	king					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	frown	to-infinitive	king not said here			the courtiers	fiercely property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	misrepresent	past · perfect · passive		the courtiers				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 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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