The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 46

This was the most eloquent speech the King had been known to make, and when everybody had done admiring it the Prime Minister made answer:

Who acts: This, eloquent speech, everybody, Prime Minister · What happens: be, know, make, do, admire · To what, where: eloquent speech, King, speech, answer

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (This, eloquent speech, everybody, Prime Minister), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 speech	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 speech	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 speech	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 eloquent	advmod
5	eloquent	eloquent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 speech	amod
6	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 known	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 known	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 known	aux:pass
11	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 speech	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 known	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 done	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 done	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 done	advmod
17	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 done	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 speech	parataxis
20	admiring	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 done	xcomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 admiring	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Minister	det
23	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	24 Minister	compound
24	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 made	nsubj
25	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 admiring	ccomp
26	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 speech	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	This	the eloquent speech	tree rules
2	know	past · perfect · passive	the eloquent speech not said here	the King	tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive	the eloquent speech not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	do	past · perfect	everybody		tree rules
5	admire	gerund	everybody not said here	speech	tree rules
6	make	past	the Prime Minister	answer	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product

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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