The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 8

No wonder the young ladies thought him very odd, but they liked him all the better for that; and as he had received at his birth the name of Désiré, they all called him d’Amour Désiré.

Who acts: wonder, ladies, King · What happens: think, like, receive, call, name · To what, where: King, name, birth, Désiré · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonder, ladies, King), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 wonder	det
2	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ladies	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ladies	amod
5	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	obj
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 odd	advmod
9	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thought	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 liked	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 liked	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 liked	nsubj
13	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 liked	obj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 better	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 better	det
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 liked	ccomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 that	case
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 better	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 received	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 received	cc
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 received	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 received	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 received	aux
25	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 thought	ccomp
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 birth	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 birth	nmod:poss
28	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 received	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 name	det
30	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 received	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Désiré	case
32	Désiré	Désiré	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 name	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 called	punct
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 called	nsubj
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 called	advmod
36	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	parataxis
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 called	obj
38	d’Amour	d'amour	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 called	xcomp
39	Désiré	Désiré	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 d’Amour	appos
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	no wonder	King			odd property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
2	like	past	ladies = lady	King				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	receive	past · perfect	King	the name of Désiré		King's birth		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent name=Theme at birth=Location
4	call	past	ladies = lady		King			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	name			Désiré				nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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