The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 77

No sooner did the princess cast her eyes on the petticoats than she declared they were even more beautiful than the mantle, and that she would give the maiden whatever price she wanted for them.

Who acts: princess, petticoats · What happens: cast, declare, be, give, want · To what, where: eyes, petticoats, maiden price · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, petticoats), 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 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 cast	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cast	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cast	nsubj
6	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cast	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 petticoats	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 petticoats	det
11	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cast	obl
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	14 declared	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 declared	nsubj
14	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cast	advcl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 beautiful	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 beautiful	cop
17	even	even	ADV	_	18 more	advmod
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 beautiful	advmod
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 declared	ccomp
20	than	than	ADP	_	22 mantle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mantle	det
22	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beautiful	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 give	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 give	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 give	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 give	aux
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cast	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 maiden	det
30	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 price	amod
31	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	32 price	det
32	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obj
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 wanted	nsubj
34	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 price	acl:relcl
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 wanted	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cast	past · do-support	the princess	princess's eyes	the petticoats	soon property	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on petticoat=Destination
2	declare speech: other	past	princess				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	petticoats = petticoat			than the mantle; beautiful property	tree rules
4	give	would	princess	whatever maiden price			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme
5	want	past	princess	whatever maiden price not said here		for petticoats = petticoat	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot price=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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