The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 81

To gain time to remember at least part of it, he made several low bows to the Princess, who on her side dropped half-a-dozen curtseys without stopping to think, and then said, to relieve his evident embarrassment:

Who acts: Fanfaronade, several low bows · What happens: gain, remember, make, drop, stop, think · To what, where: part, least, several low bows, half, side, evident embarrassment · 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, several low bows), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 gain	mark
2	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gain	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 remember	mark
5	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 time	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 least	case
7	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 part	nmod
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remember	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 part	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gain	advcl
14	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bows	amod
15	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bows	amod
16	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 made	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 Princess	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Princess	det
19	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 bows	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dropped	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 dropped	nsubj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 side	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 side	nmod:poss
24	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dropped	obl
25	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bows	acl:relcl
26	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	25 dropped	obj
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 curtseys	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dozen	det
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 a	punct
30	dozen	dozen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 curtseys	compound
31	curtseys	curtsey	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 half	conj
32	without	without	SCONJ	_	33 stopping	mark
33	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 dropped	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 think	mark
35	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 stopping	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 said	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 said	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 said	advmod
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 relieve	punct
41	to	to	PART	_	42 relieve	mark
42	relieve	relieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 said	ccomp
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 embarrassment	nmod:poss
44	evident	evident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 embarrassment	amod
45	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 relieve	obj
46	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 relieve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gain	to-infinitive				time		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	remember	to-infinitive		part of part	least			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent part=Theme
3	make	past	Fanfaronade	several low bows			to the Princess	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Product
4	drop	past	several low bows	half and dozen curtseys	Princess's side			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent half=Theme on side=Destination
5	stop	gerund	several low bows not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	think speech: other	to-infinitive	several low bows not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert	past	Fanfaronade not said here			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	relieve	to-infinitive		Fanfaronade's evident embarrassment				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus embarrassment=Experiencer
9	embarrass		Fanfaronade					nom embarrassment «feeling 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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