The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 33

The first thing he was told was that when the princesses got up he was to present each one with a bouquet, and Michael thought that if he had nothing more unpleasant to do than that he should get on very well.

Who acts: princesses, Gazer, first thing · What happens: tell, get up, be, have, do, get on · To what, where: Gazer, nothing · 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 (princesses, Gazer, first thing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 thought	nsubj:outer
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thing	acl:relcl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 thought	cop
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 thought	mark
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 got	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princesses	det
11	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 thought	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 got	compound:prt
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 present	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 present	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 present	mark
17	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 got	ccomp
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 present	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 bouquet	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bouquet	det
22	bouquet	bouquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 one	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thought	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 thought	cc
25	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 thought	nsubj
26	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 unpleasant	advcl
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 had	obj
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 unpleasant	advmod
33	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thought	ccomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 do	mark
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 unpleasant	xcomp
36	than	than	SCONJ	_	40 get	mark
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 get	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 get	nsubj
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 get	aux
40	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 do	advcl
41	on	on	ADV	_	40 get	advmod
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 well	advmod
43	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 get	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		Gazer		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	get up	past	the princesses			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	is	past	Gazer		present property	tree rules
4	is	past	the first thing		think property	tree rules
5	have a condition, not said to happen	past	Gazer	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
6	do	to-infinitive	the first thing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	get on	should	Gazer		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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