The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 49

The Princess’s twenty unlucky years were not quite over, and really, if the truth must be told, I noticed that Fanfaronade and the Princess appeared to admire one another greatly.

Who acts: twenty unlucky years, I, Fanfaronade · What happens: not be, tell, notice, appear, admire · To what, where: truth, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (twenty unlucky years, I, Fanfaronade), 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 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 years	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Princess	case
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
5	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 years	amod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 over	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 over	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 over	advmod
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 over	advmod
10	over	over	ADV	_	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 noticed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 noticed	cc
13	really	really	ADV	_	23 noticed	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 really	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 told	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 truth	det
17	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	nsubj:pass
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 told	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 told	aux:pass
20	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 noticed	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 noticed	nsubj
23	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 over	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 appeared	mark
25	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 appeared	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Princess	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Princess	det
28	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Fanfaronade	conj
29	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 noticed	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 admire	mark
31	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 appeared	xcomp
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 admire	obj
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	32 one	fixed
34	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	31 admire	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 over	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the Princess's twenty unlucky years		over property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	must · passive		the truth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	notice	past	I			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	appear	past	Fanfaronade and the Princess			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	admire	to-infinitive	Fanfaronade and the Princess not said here	one	greatly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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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