The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 21

The Queen, who was devoted to her baby, was pleased with what they told her, and when she looked at Hyacinth again, his nose certainly did not seem to her _quite_ so large.

Who acts: Queen, ladies, nose · What happens: devote, be, tell, look, not seem · To what, where: Queen, baby · 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), 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	12 pleased	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 devoted	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 devoted	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 devoted	aux:pass
6	devoted	devote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Queen	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 baby	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 baby	nmod:poss
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 devoted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Queen	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pleased	cop
12	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 what	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 pleased	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 what	acl:relcl
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 looked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 looked	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 looked	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 looked	nsubj
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pleased	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 Hyacinth	case
24	Hyacinth	Hyacinth	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 looked	obl
25	again	again	ADV	_	22 looked	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seem	punct
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 nose	nmod:poss
28	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seem	nsubj
29	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	32 seem	advmod
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 seem	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 seem	advmod
32	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 looked	parataxis
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 seem	obl
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 seem	punct
36	quite	quite	ADV	_	35 _	advmod
37	_	_	PUNCT	_	39 large	punct
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 large	advmod
39	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pleased	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	devote	past · passive		the Queen			to Queen's baby goal	vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme to baby=Goal
2	is	past	the Queen				pleased property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	ladies = lady		Queen			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	look	past	Queen			again	at Hyacinth	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hyacinth=Theme
5	not seem	past · do-support	Hyacinth's nose		Queen		certainly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	be		the Queen not said here					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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