The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 52

Still, he felt very awkward and lonely, for both the princess and the old woman had entered the castle without taking the slightest notice of the young man, who remained where he was for some time, not quite knowing what he had better do.

Who acts: king, young man · What happens: feel, enter, take, remain, be, not know · To what, where: old woman, slightest notice, better do, young man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, young man), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	4 felt	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 awkward	advmod
6	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lonely	cc
8	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 awkward	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 princess	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 princess	case
11	both	both	CCONJ	_	13 princess	cc:preconj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 entered	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 entered	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 entered	aux
19	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 princess	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 castle	det
21	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 entered	obj
22	without	without	SCONJ	_	23 taking	mark
23	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 entered	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 notice	det
25	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 notice	amod
26	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 taking	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 man	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 man	det
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 notice	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 remained	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 remained	nsubj
33	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 man	acl:relcl
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 time	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 time	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 time	cop
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 time	case
38	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	39 time	det
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 remained	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 knowing	punct
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 knowing	advmod
42	quite	quite	ADV	_	43 knowing	advmod
43	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 remained	advcl
44	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	46 had	obj
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 had	nsubj
46	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 knowing	ccomp
47	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	48 do	amod
48	do	do	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 had	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	king		still	awkward property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	enter	past · perfect · passive		the old woman			tree rules
3	take	gerund		the slightest notice of the young man			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
4	remain	past	the young man				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	king		for some time		tree rules
6	not know	gerund	the young man not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	have	past	king	better do			tree rules
8	notice			the young man			nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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