The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 157

Then the guards began to search the poultry-yard, and could find nobody there but Delicia, who, with her splendid dress and her crown of diamonds, looked such a lovely Princess that they hardly dared to speak to her.

Who acts: guards, Delicia · What happens: begin, search, find, look, dare, speak · To what, where: poultry yard, nobody, lovely Princess, Delicia, diamonds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, Delicia), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guards	det
3	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 search	mark
6	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 yard	det
8	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 yard	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 poultry	punct
10	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 search	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 find	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 find	cc
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 find	aux
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	conj
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 find	obj
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 nobody	advmod
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 Delicia	cc
18	Delicia	Delicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 nobody	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dress	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 dress	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dress	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 dress	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 dress	nmod:poss
24	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dress	amod
25	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nobody	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 crown	cc
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 crown	nmod:poss
28	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dress	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 diamonds	case
30	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 crown	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 looked	punct
32	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
33	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	36 Princess	det:predet
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 Princess	det
35	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Princess	amod
36	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 looked	obj
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 dared	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 dared	nsubj
39	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	40 dared	advmod
40	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 looked	advcl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 speak	mark
42	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 dared	xcomp
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 her	case
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 speak	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the guards			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	search	to-infinitive	the guards not said here	the poultry yard				vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent yard=Location
3	find	could	the guards not said here	nobody				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Topic
4	look	past	the guards not said here	such lovely Princess				vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme princess=Attribute
5	dare	past	guards = guard				hardly property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	guards = guard not said here		Delicia			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
7	crown		Delicia	diamonds				nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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