The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 4
And the prince admired the strangeness and beauty of the treasures in the palace, but more than all he admired the beauty and courage of the maiden who had brought them there.
Who acts: prince · What happens: admire, bring · To what, where: strangeness, beauty, maiden
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 admired | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 admired | nsubj |
| 4 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 strangeness | det |
| 6 | strangeness | strangeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 admired | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 beauty | cc |
| 8 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strangeness | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 treasures | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 treasures | det |
| 11 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 beauty | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 treasures | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 more | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 more | cc |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 admired | conj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 all | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 more | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 admired | nsubj |
| 21 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 all | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 beauty | det |
| 23 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 admired | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 courage | cc |
| 25 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beauty | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 maiden | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 maiden | det |
| 28 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 courage | nmod |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 brought | aux |
| 31 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 brought | obj |
| 33 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 brought | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 admired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admire | past | the prince | the strangeness and beauty of the treasures in the palace | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer strangeness=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | admire | past | prince | the beauty and courage of the maiden | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the maiden | there | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination they=Theme |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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