The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 25

The King, who was very much annoyed to see how greatly she disliked it, took a mirror, and holding it up before the unhappy Princess, said:

Who acts: King, Princess · What happens: be, see, dislike, take, hold up, say · To what, where: sight, mirror · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (King, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 took	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 annoyed	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 annoyed	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 annoyed	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 annoyed	advmod
8	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 King	amod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 annoyed	advcl
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 greatly	advmod
12	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	14 disliked	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 disliked	nsubj
14	disliked	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 see	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 disliked	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 King	punct
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mirror	det
19	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
22	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 said	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 holding	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 holding	compound:prt
25	before	before	ADP	_	28 Princess	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Princess	det
27	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Princess	amod
28	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 holding	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 holding	punct
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	parataxis
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King			annoyed property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	the King not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	dislike	past	Princess	sight		greatly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	take	past	the King	a mirror			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=Theme
5	hold up	gerund		sight	before the unhappy Princess		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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