The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 18

The King, who loved her, was satisfied with this, and even pretended to be pleased that she had not told him all her reasons at first.

Who acts: King, child · What happens: love, be, pretend, not tell · To what, where: child, reasons, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, child), 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	9 satisfied	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 loved	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 loved	nsubj
5	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 King	acl:relcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loved	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 King	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 satisfied	cop
9	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 this	case
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 satisfied	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pretended	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pretended	cc
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 pretended	advmod
15	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 satisfied	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	18 pleased	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 pleased	cop
18	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pretended	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 told	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 told	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 told	advmod
23	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 pretended	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	iobj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 reasons	det:predet
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 reasons	nmod:poss
27	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 told	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 first	case
29	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 reasons	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 satisfied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	love	past	the King	child			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	is	past	the King			with this; satisfied property	tree rules
3	pretend	past	the King not said here				tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	the King not said here			pleased property	tree rules
5	not tell speech: assert	past · perfect	child	child's reasons	king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient reason=Topic

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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