The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 35

He gave one to each of the sisters, and they took them without even deigning to look at the lad, except Lina the youngest, who fixed her large black eyes as soft as velvet on him, and exclaimed, ‘Oh, how pretty he is—our new flower boy!’

Who acts: Michael, sisters · What happens: give, take, deign, look, fix, exclaim · To what, where: one, each, princesses, large black eyes, new flower boy · 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 (Michael, sisters), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 gave	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 each	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 one	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sisters	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sisters	det
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 each	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	obj
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	16 deigning	mark
15	even	even	ADV	_	16 deigning	advmod
16	deigning	deign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 took	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 look	mark
18	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 deigning	xcomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 lad	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lad	det
21	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 look	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 youngest	punct
23	except	except	ADP	_	24 Lina	case
24	Lina	Lina	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 youngest	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 youngest	det
26	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 took	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fixed	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 fixed	nsubj
29	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 youngest	parataxis
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 eyes	nmod:poss
31	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 eyes	amod
32	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 eyes	amod
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fixed	obj
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 soft	advmod
35	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fixed	advcl
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 velvet	case
37	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 soft	obl
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 velvet	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 exclaimed	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 exclaimed	cc
42	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 boy	punct
44	‘	'	PUNCT	_	55 boy	punct
45	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	50 is	discourse
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 is	punct
47	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	48 pretty	advmod
48	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	50 is	advmod
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 is	nsubj
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 boy	cop
51	—	-	PUNCT	_	55 boy	punct
52	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 boy	nmod:poss
53	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 boy	amod
54	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 boy	compound
55	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 exclaimed	ccomp
56	!	!	PUNCT	_	55 boy	punct
57	’	'	PUNCT	_	55 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	Michael	one	each		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Theme to each=Recipient
2	take	past	sisters = sister	princesses = princess			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument they=Theme young=Destination
3	deign	gerund	sisters = sister not said here				tree rules
4	look	to-infinitive	sisters = sister not said here			at the lad	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lad=Theme
5	fix	past		Lina's large black eyes			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
6	exclaim speech: express	past	Michael not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
7	is a	present		our new flower boy			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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