The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 38

Their majesties were amused at them for thinking of it, but did not make any reply, and soon after both the King and the Queen were taken ill, and died on the same day.

What happens: amuse, think, not make, take, die · To what, where: majesties, reply, King

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: 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 majesties	nmod:poss
2	majesties	majesty	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 amused	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 amused	aux:pass
4	amused	amuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 amused	obl
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 thinking	mark
8	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 amused	advcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thinking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 make	cc
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 make	advmod
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 amused	parataxis
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 reply	det
17	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 taken	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 taken	cc
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 taken	advmod
21	after	after	SCONJ	_	29 taken	mark
22	both	both	CCONJ	_	24 King	cc:preconj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 King	det
24	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 taken	nsubj:pass
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Queen	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Queen	det
27	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 King	conj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 taken	aux:pass
29	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 make	conj
30	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 taken	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 died	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 died	cc
33	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 amused	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	37 day	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 day	det
36	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 day	amod
37	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 died	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 amused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	amuse	past · passive	brothers's majesties		at brothers = brother	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	think speech: other	gerund			of smile	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not make	past · do-support	any reply			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reply=Product
4	take	past · passive	the King and the Queen		ill, soon property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
5	die	past		day		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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