The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 36

They loved their sister dearly, for she was the sweetest, prettiest princess who was ever seen, and the least little smile from her was worth more than a hundred pieces of gold.

Who acts: brothers, Queen, least little smile · What happens: love, be, see · To what, where: sister, sweetest prettiest princess

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 (brothers, Queen, least little smile), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sister	nmod:poss
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loved	obj
5	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	2 loved	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 princess	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	14 princess	case
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 princess	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 princess	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 princess	det
11	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 princess	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sweetest	punct
13	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 princess	amod
14	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loved	conj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 seen	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seen	aux:pass
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 seen	advmod
18	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 princess	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 worth	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 worth	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 smile	det
22	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 smile	amod
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 smile	amod
24	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 worth	nsubj
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 smile	nmod
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 worth	cop
28	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seen	conj
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	32 hundred	advmod
30	than	than	ADP	_	29 more	fixed
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hundred	det
32	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 pieces	nummod
33	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 worth	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 gold	case
35	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pieces	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	brothers = brother	brothers's sister		dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus
2	is	past	Queen			for the sweetest prettiest princess	tree rules
3	see	past · passive		the sweetest prettiest princess	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	is	past	the least little smile from Queen			worth property	tree rules

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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