The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 85

Never were so many beautiful princesses seen together at one time, but the one whom the cow-boy thought the most beautiful and the most fascinating was the little Princess with the velvet eyes.

Who acts: cow boy, beautiful · What happens: not be, see, think, be · To what, where: many beautiful princesses, one, little Princess · 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 (cow boy, beautiful), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 princesses	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 princesses	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 princesses	amod
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 princesses	amod
6	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 princesses	acl
8	together	together	ADV	_	7 seen	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 time	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 time	nummod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 one	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 princesses	appos
16	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 thought	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boy	det
18	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 boy	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 cow	punct
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 one	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 beautiful	det
23	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 beautiful	advmod
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Princess	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fascinating	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fascinating	det
27	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	28 fascinating	advmod
28	fascinating	fascinating	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 beautiful	conj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 Princess	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Princess	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Princess	amod
32	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thought	ccomp
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 eyes	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 eyes	det
35	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 eyes	compound
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 Princess	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 princesses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past		many beautiful princesses			tree rules
2	see	participle		many beautiful princesses not said here	time	together property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	think speech: other	past	the cow boy	the one			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whom=Theme
4	is a	past	the beautiful	the little Princess		with the velvet eyes	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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