The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 39

However, everyone was anxious to hear the Queen’s commands in regard to the two Princes, not thinking that she had any ill design in her head against them.

Who acts: everyone, two Princes, Queen · What happens: be, hear, not think, have, command · To what, where: commands, regard, ill design, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone, two Princes, Queen), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 anxious	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 anxious	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 anxious	cop
5	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 anxious	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Queen	det
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 commands	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Queen	case
11	commands	command	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hear	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 regard	case
13	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 commands	nmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 Princes	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Princes	det
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 Princes	nummod
17	Princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 regard	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thinking	punct
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 thinking	advmod
20	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 Princes	acl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thinking	ccomp
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 design	det
25	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 design	amod
26	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 head	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 design	nmod
30	against	against	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 anxious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	everyone			anxious, however property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	everyone not said here	the Queen's commands	regard to the two Princes		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer command=Stimulus
3	not think speech: other	gerund	the two Princes not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	past	Queen	any ill design	Queen's head against Princes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent design=Patient
5	command		the Queen		regard to the two Princes		nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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