The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 69

Meanwhile the servants were putting the supper on the table, and the prince was much amused to hear the Fairy who asked them a thousand questions simply for the pleasure of hearing herself speak; especially he noticed one maid who, no matter what was being said, always contrived to praise her mistress’s wisdom.

Who acts: servants, prince, Fairy, pleasure · What happens: put, be, hear, ask, speak, notice · To what, where: supper, table, Fairy, thousand questions, servants, one maid · 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 (servants, prince, Fairy, pleasure), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	5 putting	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servants	det
3	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 putting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 putting	aux
5	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 supper	det
7	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 putting	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 table	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 table	det
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 putting	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 amused	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 amused	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prince	det
14	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 amused	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 amused	cop
16	much	much	ADV	_	17 amused	advmod
17	amused	amused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 putting	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 hear	mark
19	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 amused	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Fairy	det
21	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hear	obj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 asked	nsubj
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 Fairy	acl:relcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	obj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 questions	det
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 questions	nummod
27	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 asked	obj
28	simply	simply	ADV	_	31 pleasure	advmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 pleasure	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 pleasure	det
31	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asked	ccomp
32	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 hearing	mark
33	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 pleasure	acl
34	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 speak	nsubj
35	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 hearing	xcomp
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 noticed	punct
37	especially	especially	ADV	_	39 noticed	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 noticed	nsubj
39	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 amused	advcl
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 maid	nummod
41	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 noticed	obj
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 maid	appos
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 matter	punct
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 matter	det
45	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 who	appos
46	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	49 said	obj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 said	aux:pass
48	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 said	aux:pass
49	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 matter	acl:relcl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 contrived	punct
51	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	52 contrived	advmod
52	contrived	contrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 said	conj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 praise	mark
54	praise	praise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 contrived	xcomp
55	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 mistress	nmod:poss
56	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 wisdom	nmod:poss
57	’s	's	PART	_	56 mistress	case
58	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 praise	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 putting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past · progressive	the servants	the supper		the table	meanwhile property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent supper=Theme on table=Destination
2	is	past	the prince				amused property	tree rules
3	hear	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	the Fairy				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus
4	ask speech: ask	past	the Fairy	a thousand questions	servants = servant			tree rules
5	hear	gerund	the pleasure not said here					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	speak speech: other	infinitive	fairy					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	notice	past	Prince	one maid			especially property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer maid=Stimulus
8	say speech: assert	past · passive		no matter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: what=Topic
9	contrive	participle					always property	tree rules
10	praise	to-infinitive		fairy's mistress's wisdom				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme

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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