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The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 79

The King’s attention was attracted, and when he looked up and beheld the beautiful Princess with the golden star on her forehead, he was so enchanted by her beauty that he asked her on the spot to be his wife.

Who acts: greyhound, beauty, King · What happens: attract, look up, behold, enchant, ask, be · To what, where: attention, beautiful Princess, forehead, greyhound, girl, spot

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greyhound, beauty, 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

detnmod:posscasensubj:passaux:passpunctccadvmodnsubjparataxiscompound:prtccconjdetamodobjcasedetamodoblcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjaux:passadvmodconjcasenmod:possoblmarknsubjadvcliobjcasedetoblmarkcopnmod:possnmodpunctrootTheDETKingPROPN’sPARTattentionNOUNwasAUXattractedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVhePRONlookedVERBupADPandCCONJbeheldVERBtheDETbeautifulADJPrincessNOUNwithADPtheDETgoldenADJstarNOUNonADPherPRONforeheadNOUN,PUNCThePRONwasAUXsoADVenchantedVERBbyADPherPRONbeautyNOUNthatSCONJhePRONaskedVERBherPRONonADPtheDETspotNOUNtoPARTbeAUXhisPRONwifeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Kingdet
2KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing4 attentionnmod:poss
3’s'sPART_2 Kingcase
4attentionattentionNOUNNumber=Sing6 attractednsubj:pass
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 attractedaux:pass
6attractedattractVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
7,,PUNCT_11 lookedpunct
8andandCCONJ_11 lookedcc
9whenwhenADVPronType=Int11 lookedadvmod
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 lookednsubj
11lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 attractedparataxis
12upupADP_11 lookedcompound:prt
13andandCCONJ_14 beheldcc
14beheldbeholdVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 lookedconj
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Princessdet
16beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos17 Princessamod
17PrincessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing14 beheldobj
18withwithADP_21 starcase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 stardet
20goldengoldenADJDegree=Pos21 staramod
21starstarNOUNNumber=Sing14 beheldobl
22ononADP_24 foreheadcase
23herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 foreheadnmod:poss
24foreheadforeheadNOUNNumber=Sing14 beheldobl
25,,PUNCT_29 enchantedpunct
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 enchantednsubj
27wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 enchantedaux:pass
28sosoADV_29 enchantedadvmod
29enchantedenchantVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 attractedconj
30bybyADP_32 beautycase
31herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 beautynmod:poss
32beautybeautyNOUNNumber=Sing29 enchantedobl
33thatthatSCONJ_35 askedmark
34hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 askednsubj
35askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 enchantedadvcl
36hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 askediobj
37ononADP_39 spotcase
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 spotdet
39spotspotNOUNNumber=Sing35 askedobl
40totoPART_43 wifemark
41bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf43 wifecop
42hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs43 wifenmod:poss
43wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing39 spotnmod
44..PUNCT_6 attractedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1attractpast · passivethe King's attentionvn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2look uppastgreyhoundvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3beholdpastgreyhound not said herethe beautiful Princessgirl's foreheadwith the golden starvn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
4enchantpast · passivegirl's beautygreyhoundvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
5ask speech: askpastgreyhoundgirlthe spotvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6is ato-infinitivegreyhound's wifetree rules
7attendthe Kingnom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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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