The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 29

At first when he saw them coming he was vexed, for he was not fond of ladies; but when he recognised the Queen, he said:

Who acts: hermit, horses · What happens: see, come, vex, not be, recognise, say · To what, where: horses, hermit, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit, horses), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 saw	obl
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obj
7	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 saw	xcomp
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 vexed	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 vexed	aux:pass
10	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 coming	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fond	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 fond	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fond	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fond	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 fond	advmod
16	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 vexed	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 ladies	case
18	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fond	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 recognised	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 recognised	nsubj
23	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 said	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Queen	det
25	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 recognised	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 recognised	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	hermit	horses = horse		tree rules
2	come	gerund	horses = horse not said here			tree rules
3	vex	past · passive		hermit		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	not is	past	hermit		of ladies; fond property	tree rules
5	recognise	past	hermit	the Queen		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus
6	say speech: assert	past	hermit			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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