The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 126

But no sooner had they finished their first bows and curtseys than a slight breeze sprung up, and began to sway the princess, whose equerries had retired out of respect.

Who acts: princesses · What happens: have, finish, spring up, begin, sway, retire · To what, where: first bows, slight breeze, princess, equerries, respect

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princesses), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 finished	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 finished	advcl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 finished	nsubj
6	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bows	nmod:poss
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 bows	amod
9	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 finished	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 curtseys	cc
11	curtseys	curtsey	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bows	conj
12	than	than	ADP	_	15 breeze	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 breeze	det
14	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 breeze	amod
15	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finished	obl
16	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 breeze	acl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 sprung	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 finished	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 sway	mark
22	sway	sway	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 princess	det
24	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sway	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 retired	punct
26	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	27 equerries	nmod:poss
27	equerries	equerry	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 retired	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 retired	aux
29	retired	retire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 princess	acl:relcl
30	out	out	ADP	_	32 respect	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 respect	case
32	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 retired	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	princesses = princess not said here			soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	finish	past	princesses = princess	princesses's first bows and curtseys		than a slight breeze	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bow=Eventuality
3	spring up	participle		a slight breeze not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	princesses = princess not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	sway	to-infinitive	princesses = princess not said here	the princess			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location princess=Theme
6	retire	past · perfect · passive		equerries	respect		vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

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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