The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 86

Everybody was delighted to see her; she was so pretty that they thought she must be some fairy princess, and the Princes who were there could not take their eyes off her.

Who acts: Everybody, Princess, misfortunes, Princes · What happens: be, see, think, not take · To what, where: Princess, fairy princess, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everybody, Princess, misfortunes, Princes), 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	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 delighted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delighted	cop
3	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 delighted	advcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pretty	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pretty	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 pretty	advmod
11	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	14 thought	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 thought	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thought	nsubj
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delighted	conj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 princess	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 princess	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 princess	cop
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 princess	det
19	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 princess	amod
20	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thought	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 take	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Princes	det
24	Princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 take	nsubj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 there	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 there	cop
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 Princes	acl:relcl
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 take	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 take	advmod
30	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 princess	parataxis
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 eyes	nmod:poss
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 take	obj
33	off	off	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 take	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Everybody		delighted property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	Everybody not said here	Princess		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	is	past	Princess		pretty property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	misfortunes = misfortune			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	must	Princess	some fairy princess		tree rules
6	is	past	the Princes		there property	tree rules
7	not take	could	the Princes	misfortunes's eyes	off Princess	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme off she=Initial_Location

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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