The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 59

The Princess was surprised, and, if the truth must be told, very much delighted at the appearance of this charming page, whom she could not remember to have seen before.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: be, tell, not remember, not see · To what, where: truth, appearance, charming page · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 surprised	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 surprised	cop
4	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 told	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 truth	det
10	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	nsubj:pass
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 told	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	aux:pass
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 surprised	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 delighted	punct
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	17 delighted	advmod
17	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 surprised	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 appearance	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 appearance	det
20	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 delighted	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 page	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 page	det
23	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 page	compound
24	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 appearance	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 remember	punct
26	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 remember	obj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 remember	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 remember	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 remember	advmod
30	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 page	acl:relcl
31	to	to	PART	_	33 seen	mark
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 seen	aux
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 remember	xcomp
34	before	before	ADV	_	33 seen	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Princess			surprised property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	must · passive		the truth			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	be		the Princess not said here		the appearance of this charming page		tree rules
4	not remember	could	Princess	this charming page			tree rules
5	not see	to-infinitive · perfect	Princess not said here			before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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