The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 12

Besides which, his courtiers made fun at his adventure, and he did not like being laughed at, though of course they did not dare to do it before his face.

Who acts: courtiers, king · What happens: make, not like, laugh, not dare, not do, adventure · To what, where: fun, adventure

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtiers, king), 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	Besides	besides	ADP	_	2 which	case
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 made	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 courtiers	nmod:poss
5	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 adventure	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 adventure	nmod:poss
10	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 like	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 like	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 like	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 like	advmod
16	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	advcl
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 laughed	aux:pass
18	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 like	xcomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	18 laughed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dare	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 dare	mark
22	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	27 dare	advmod
23	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 of	fixed
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 dare	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dare	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 dare	advmod
27	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 like	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 dare	xcomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 do	obj
31	before	before	ADP	_	33 face	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 face	nmod:poss
33	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 do	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	make	past	king's courtiers	fun	king's adventure		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product
2	not like	past · do-support	king				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	laugh not said to happen	gerund · passive	king not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»
4	not dare	past · do-support	courtiers = courtier				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not do	to-infinitive	courtiers = courtier not said here	fun		before king's face	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	adventure		king				nom adventure «act 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 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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