The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 41

The young Princes were not in the least concerned, not knowing what they had to do; but the whole Court was amazed at her demand, knowing very well that it was impossible for them ever to get the steed, as all that ever sought him perished in the attempt.

Who acts: young Princes, Princes, whole Court, Queen · What happens: not be, not know, have, do, be, know · To what, where: demand, steed, that, attempt · 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 (young Princes, Princes, whole Court, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princes	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Princes	amod
3	Princes	Prince	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 concerned	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 concerned	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 concerned	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 concerned	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 concerned	det
8	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 concerned	advmod
9	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knowing	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 knowing	advmod
12	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 concerned	advcl
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 knowing	obj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	xcomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 amazed	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 amazed	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Court	det
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Court	amod
22	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 amazed	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 amazed	cop
24	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 concerned	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 demand	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 demand	nmod:poss
27	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 amazed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 knowing	punct
29	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 amazed	advcl
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 well	advmod
31	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 knowing	advmod
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 impossible	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 impossible	expl
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 impossible	cop
35	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 knowing	ccomp
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 impossible	obl
38	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 impossible	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 get	mark
40	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 impossible	csubj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 steed	det
42	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 get	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 sought	punct
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 sought	mark
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 sought	det:predet
46	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 sought	obj
47	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	48 sought	advmod
48	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 concerned	conj
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 sought	obj
50	perished	perish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 sought	xcomp
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 attempt	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 attempt	det
53	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 perished	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 concerned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the young Princes				concerned property	tree rules
2	not know	gerund	the young Princes not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	have	past	Princes = prince					tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	Princes = prince not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the whole Court		Queen's demand		amazed property	tree rules
6	know	gerund	the whole Court not said here				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past				ever	for Princes = prince; impossible property	tree rules
8	get	to-infinitive		the steed				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer steed=Stimulus
9	seek	past	the young Princes not said here	that		ever		tree rules
10	perish not said to happen	participle	the young Princes not said here		the attempt			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
11	demand		Queen					nom demand «communication transitive»: 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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