The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 20

The Queen was inconsolable when she saw this great nose, but her ladies assured her that it was not really as large as it looked; that it was a Roman nose, and you had only to open any history to see that every hero has a large nose.

Who acts: Queen, ladies, nose, you, hero · What happens: be, see, assure, not be, look, have · To what, where: great nose, Queen, Roman nose, history, large nose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, ladies, nose, you), 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 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 saw	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 inconsolable	cop
4	inconsolable	inconsolable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Queen	appos
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saw	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 nose	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nose	amod
10	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 assured	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 assured	cc
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ladies	nmod:poss
14	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 assured	nsubj
15	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 assured	iobj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 large	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 large	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 large	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 large	advmod
21	really	really	ADV	_	23 large	advmod
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 large	advmod
23	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 assured	advcl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 looked	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 looked	nsubj
26	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 large	advcl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 nose	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 nose	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 nose	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 nose	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 nose	det
32	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 nose	amod
33	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 had	cc
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
38	only	only	ADV	_	40 open	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 open	mark
40	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 had	xcomp
41	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	42 history	det
42	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 open	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 see	mark
44	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 open	advcl
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 has	mark
46	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	47 hero	det
47	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 has	nsubj
48	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 see	ccomp
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 nose	det
50	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 nose	amod
51	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 has	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past				inconsolable property	tree rules
2	see	past	the Queen	this great nose			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nose=Stimulus
3	assure	past	Queen's ladies		Queen		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	not is	past	nose			large property	tree rules
5	look	past	nose				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	is a	past	nose	a Roman nose			tree rules
7	have	past	you				tree rules
8	open	to-infinitive	you not said here	any history			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location history=Theme
9	see	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	have	present	every hero	a large nose			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=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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