The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 80

Fanfaronade was not generally at a loss for something to say, but when he saw the Princess, she was so much more beautiful and majestic than he had expected that he could only stammer out a few words, and entirely forgot the harangue which he had been learning for months, and knew well enough to have repeated it in his sleep.

Who acts: Fanfaronade, Princess, harangue · What happens: not be, say, see, be, expect, stammer out · To what, where: loss, Princess, Fanfaronade, few words, harangue, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Fanfaronade, Princess, harangue), 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	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 loss	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 loss	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 loss	advmod
4	generally	generally	ADV	_	7 loss	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 loss	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 loss	det
7	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 something	case
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 loss	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 something	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 saw	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 loss	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Princess	det
18	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 beautiful	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 beautiful	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 beautiful	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADV	_	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 beautiful	advmod
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 saw	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 majestic	cc
27	majestic	majestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 beautiful	conj
28	than	than	SCONJ	_	31 expected	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 expected	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 expected	aux
31	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 beautiful	advcl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 stammer	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 stammer	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 stammer	aux
35	only	only	ADV	_	36 stammer	advmod
36	stammer	stammer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 expected	advcl
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 stammer	compound:prt
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 words	det
39	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 words	amod
40	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 stammer	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 forgot	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 forgot	cc
43	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	44 forgot	advmod
44	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 saw	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 harangue	det
46	harangue	harangue	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 forgot	obj
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 learning	nsubj
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 learning	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 learning	aux
50	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 learning	aux
51	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 harangue	acl:relcl
52	for	for	ADP	_	53 months	case
53	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 learning	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 knew	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 knew	cc
56	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 forgot	conj
57	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	56 knew	advmod
58	enough	enough	ADV	_	56 knew	advmod
59	to	to	PART	_	61 repeated	mark
60	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	61 repeated	aux
61	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	56 knew	advcl
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 repeated	obj
63	in	in	ADP	_	65 sleep	case
64	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 sleep	nmod:poss
65	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 repeated	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 loss	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Fanfaronade		a loss		for something; generally property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Fanfaronade not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	Fanfaronade	the Princess				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
4	is	past	Princess				beautiful property	tree rules
5	be		Princess not said here					tree rules
6	expect	past · perfect · passive		Fanfaronade				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	stammer out speech: other	could	Fanfaronade	a few words				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
8	forget	past	Fanfaronade not said here	the harangue			entirely property	tree rules
9	learn	past · perfect · progressive	the harangue			month		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	know	past	Fanfaronade not said here				enough, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
11	repeat	to-infinitive · perfect	Fanfaronade not said here	harangue	Fanfaronade's sleep			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
12	sleep		Fanfaronade					nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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