The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 66
But the Princess scarcely gave a glance to any of these treasures, for she thought of nothing but Fanfaronade.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: give, think · To what, where: glance, any
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 gave | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 5 gave | advmod |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 glance | det |
| 7 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 any | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 gave | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 treasures | case |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 treasures | det |
| 12 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 any | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 thought | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 nothing | case |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 thought | obl |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 Fanfaronade | cc |
| 20 | Fanfaronade | Fanfaronade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 nothing | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Princess | a glance | any | scarcely property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent glance=Theme to any=Recipient | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Princess | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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