The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 3

Messengers were sent to all the gayest and most refined Courts, particularly to the Court of France, to seek out everything rare and precious to adorn the Princess, although her beauty was so perfect that nothing she wore could make her look prettier.

Who acts: beauty, Princess, nothing · What happens: send, refine, seek out, adorn, be, wear · To what, where: Messengers, gayest refined Courts, everything, Princess

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (beauty, Princess, nothing), 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	Messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	11 Courts	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 Courts	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Courts	det
7	gayest	gay	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 Courts	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Courts	cc
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 refined	advmod
10	refined	refine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 Courts	amod
11	Courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Court	punct
13	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	16 Court	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Court	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Court	det
16	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 France	case
18	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Court	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seek	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 seek	mark
21	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 seek	compound:prt
23	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	21 seek	obj
24	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 everything	amod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 precious	cc
26	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 rare	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 adorn	mark
28	adorn	adorn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 precious	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Princess	det
30	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 adorn	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 perfect	punct
32	although	although	SCONJ	_	37 perfect	mark
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 beauty	nmod:poss
34	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 perfect	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 perfect	cop
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 perfect	advmod
37	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 seek	parataxis
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 make	mark
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	43 make	nsubj
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 wore	nsubj
41	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 nothing	acl:relcl
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 make	aux
43	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 perfect	advcl
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 make	obj
45	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 make	xcomp
46	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	45 look	xcomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		Messengers		all gayest refined Courts		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to court=Destination
2	refine	participle						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	seek out	to-infinitive		everything				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
4	adorn	to-infinitive			the Princess			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme princess=Destination
5	is	past	Princess's beauty				perfect property	tree rules
6	wear	past	Princess					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
7	make	could	nothing	Princess				tree rules
8	look	infinitive	Princess not said here				pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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