The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 84

Now, the Fairy was so clever that she could not only seem beautiful to the King, but even the poor Princess thought her the most lovely being she had ever seen.

Who acts: Fairy, poor Princess · What happens: be, not seem, think, see · To what, where: Fairy · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Fairy, poor Princess), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 clever	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fairy	det
4	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 clever	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 clever	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 clever	advmod
7	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 seem	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seem	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 seem	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 seem	advmod
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 seem	advmod
13	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 clever	advcl
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seem	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 King	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 King	det
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 beautiful	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 thought	cc
20	even	even	ADV	_	24 thought	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Princess	det
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Princess	amod
23	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 clever	parataxis
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thought	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 lovely	det
27	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	28 lovely	advmod
28	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 seen	mark
29	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 seen	aux:pass
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seen	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 seen	aux
32	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 seen	advmod
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 thought	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Fairy		now	clever property	tree rules
2	not seem	could	Fairy			beautiful property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	the poor Princess	Fairy			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme
4	see	gerund · perfect · passive		Fairy	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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