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

But the Queen was so vain that she thought all their admiring glances were for herself, especially as, in spite of the badness of their cause, the King’s knights were so brave that they were the victors in every combat.

Who acts: Queen, admiring glances, knights, combatants · What happens: be, think, glance, spite, cause · To what, where: victors, combat, badness · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Queen, admiring glances, knights, combatants), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 vain	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 vain	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vain	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 vain	advmod
6	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 thought	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vain	advcl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 glances	det:predet
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 glances	nmod:poss
12	admiring	admiring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glances	compound
13	glances	glance	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 herself	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 herself	cop
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 herself	case
16	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 thought	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 as	punct
18	especially	especially	ADV	_	19 as	advmod
19	as	as	ADV	_	6 vain	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spite	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 spite	case
22	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vain	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 badness	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 badness	det
25	badness	badness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spite	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 cause	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 cause	nmod:poss
28	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 badness	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 brave	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 King	det
31	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 knights	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 King	case
33	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 brave	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 brave	cop
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 brave	advmod
36	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 spite	parataxis
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 victors	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 victors	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 victors	cop
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 victors	det
41	victors	victor	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 brave	advcl
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 combat	case
43	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	44 combat	det
44	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 victors	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 vain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Queen			vain property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	Queen				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	combatants's admiring glances			for Queen	tree rules
4	is	past	the King's knights			brave property	tree rules
5	is a	past	knights = knight	the victors	every combat		tree rules
6	glance		combatants = combatant				nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=agent
7	spite			the badness of combatants's cause			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
8	cause		combatants = combatant				nom cause «event 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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