The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 149

But the astonishing part of it was that the youngest sister did not seem at all to relish this method of stopping the mouth of the gardener’s boy, who, after all, had said nothing to their father.

Who acts: astonishing part, method, boy · What happens: not be, relish, stop, say · To what, where: all, method, mouth, nothing, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (astonishing part, method, boy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	14 seem	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 part	det
3	astonishing	astonishing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 part	amod
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seem	nsubj:outer
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 part	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seem	cop
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 seem	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sister	det
10	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 sister	amod
11	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seem	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seem	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 seem	advmod
14	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 seem	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 relish	mark
18	relish	relish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 seem	xcomp
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 method	det
20	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 relish	obj
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	22 stopping	mark
22	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 method	acl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mouth	det
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stopping	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 boy	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gardener	det
27	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 boy	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 gardener	case
29	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mouth	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 said	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 who	punct
33	after	after	ADP	_	34 all	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 who	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 who	punct
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 said	aux
37	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 boy	acl:relcl
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	37 said	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 father	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 father	nmod:poss
41	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 nothing	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past · do-support	the astonishing part of way			all	seem property	tree rules
2	relish	to-infinitive	the astonishing part of way not said here	this method				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer method=Stimulus
3	stop	gerund	this method not said here	the mouth of the gardener's boy				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality mouth=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the gardener's boy	nothing	sisters's father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to father=Recipient

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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