The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 160

Not wishing, however, to cut a poor figure at the ball by the side of the other dancers, he went at once to the laurels, and said:

Who acts: Gazer · What happens: not wish, cut, go, say · To what, where: poor figure, ball, laurels · 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 (Gazer), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 wishing	advmod
2	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 went	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	2 wishing	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cut	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cut	mark
7	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wishing	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 figure	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 figure	amod
10	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 ball	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ball	det
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 side	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 side	det
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 dancers	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dancers	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dancers	amod
20	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 side	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wishing	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 said	advcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 once	case
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 went	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 laurels	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 laurels	det
28	laurels	laurel	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 went	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not wish	gerund	Gazer not said here			however property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	cut	to-infinitive	Gazer not said here	a poor figure	the ball	by the side of the other dancers	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset figure=Product
3	go	past	Gazer		the laurels		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to laurel=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past					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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