The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 88

The poor boy envied those handsome young men with whom she danced so gracefully, but he did not know how little reason he had to be jealous of them.

Who acts: poor boy, hair, boy, little reason · What happens: envy, dance, not know, have, be · To what, where: handsome young men, little reason

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 (poor boy, hair, boy, little reason), 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 boy	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 envied	nsubj
4	envied	envy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 men	det
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 envied	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 whom	case
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 men	nmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 danced	nsubj
12	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 whom	acl:relcl
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 gracefully	advmod
14	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	_	12 danced	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 know	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 know	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 know	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 know	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 know	advmod
20	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 envied	conj
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 little	advmod
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 reason	amod
23	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 know	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 reason	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	28 jealous	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 jealous	cop
28	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 had	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 jealous	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 envied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	envy	past	the poor boy	that handsome young men		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
2	dance	past	hair		gracefully property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not know	past · do-support	boy	little reason		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus
4	have	past	boy	little reason not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
5	is	to-infinitive	little reason not said here		of men = man; jealous property	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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