The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 1

Numbers of knights came from far and wide to accept the challenge, and the hideous Queen sat in great state in a balcony hung with cloth of gold to watch the contests, and Graciosa had to stand up behind her, where her loveliness was so conspicuous that the combatants could not keep their eyes off her.

Who acts: Numbers, hideous Queen, Graciosa, loveliness, combatants · What happens: come, accept, sit, hang, watch, have · To what, where: challenge, great state, balcony, contests, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Numbers, hideous Queen, Graciosa, loveliness), 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	Numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 knights	case
3	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Numbers	nmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 far	case
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wide	cc
8	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 far	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 accept	mark
10	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wide	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 challenge	det
12	challenge	challenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 accept	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Queen	det
16	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Queen	amod
17	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 state	case
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 state	amod
21	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 balcony	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 balcony	det
24	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
25	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 balcony	acl
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 cloth	case
27	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hung	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 gold	case
29	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cloth	nmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 watch	mark
31	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 hung	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 contests	det
33	contests	contest	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 watch	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 had	cc
36	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 stand	mark
39	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 had	xcomp
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 stand	compound:prt
41	behind	behind	ADP	_	42 her	case
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 stand	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 conspicuous	punct
44	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	49 conspicuous	advmod
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 loveliness	nmod:poss
46	loveliness	loveliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 conspicuous	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 conspicuous	cop
48	so	so	ADV	_	49 conspicuous	advmod
49	conspicuous	conspicuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 stand	parataxis
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 keep	mark
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 combatants	det
52	combatants	combatant	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 keep	nsubj
53	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 keep	aux
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 keep	advmod
55	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 conspicuous	advcl
56	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 eyes	nmod:poss
57	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 keep	obj
58	off	off	ADP	_	59 her	case
59	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 keep	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Numbers of knights				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from far=Initial_Location
2	accept	to-infinitive	Numbers of knights not said here	the challenge			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme
3	sit	past	the hideous Queen		great state	in a balcony	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in state=Location
4	hang	participle		a balcony not said here		with cloth of gold	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	watch	to-infinitive		the contests			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contest=Theme
6	have	past	Graciosa				tree rules
7	stand up	to-infinitive	Graciosa not said here			behind Graciosa	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind she=Location
8	is	past	Graciosa's loveliness			conspicuous property	tree rules
9	not keep	could	the combatants	combatants's eyes		off Graciosa	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme

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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