The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 74

The King had so many other things to think of that he did not notice this, but all his courtiers were entirely taken up with admiring the Princess and her charming Page in green, who was more handsome and distinguished-looking than all the rest of the court put together.

Who acts: King, horse, charming Page, Princess · What happens: have, think, not notice, take up, admire, be · To what, where: many other things, this, courtiers, Princess

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 (King, horse, charming Page, 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 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 think	mark
9	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 things	acl
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 think	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 notice	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 notice	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 notice	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 notice	advmod
15	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 think	advcl
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 notice	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 taken	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 taken	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 courtiers	det:predet
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 courtiers	nmod:poss
21	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 taken	nsubj:pass
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 taken	aux:pass
23	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	24 taken	advmod
24	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 taken	compound:prt
26	with	with	SCONJ	_	27 admiring	mark
27	admiring	admire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 taken	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Princess	det
29	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 admiring	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Page	cc
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 Page	nmod:poss
32	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Page	compound
33	Page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 admiring	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 green	case
35	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Page	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 handsome	punct
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 handsome	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 handsome	cop
39	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 handsome	advmod
40	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Page	parataxis
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 looking	cc
42	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 looking	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 distinguished	punct
44	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 handsome	conj
45	than	than	ADP	_	48 rest	case
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 rest	det:predet
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 rest	det
48	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 looking	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 court	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 court	det
51	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 rest	nmod
52	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 looking	advcl
53	together	together	ADV	_	52 put	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the King	many other things		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the King not said here	many other things not said here		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not notice	past · do-support	horse	this		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
4	take up	past · passive		horse's courtiers	entirely property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	admire	gerund		the Princess		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
6	is	past	Princess's charming Page in green		handsome property	tree rules
7	look	gerund	Princess's charming Page in green not said here		than all rest of the court	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	put together	infinitive	Princess's charming Page in green not said here		together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
9	page		Princess			nom page «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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