The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 105

And all the courtiers and counsellors were amazed when they saw the hard lines round his mouth and the frown on his brow grow smooth, and heard the mild but mocking tones in which he answered the old woman, saying:

Who acts: courtiers, King · What happens: see, grow, hear, mock, answer, say · To what, where: hard lines, brow, mild mocking tones, old woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 courtiers	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 courtiers	det
4	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 saw	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 counsellors	cc
6	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 courtiers	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 amazed	aux:pass
8	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 saw	advcl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saw	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lines	det
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lines	amod
14	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 saw	obj
15	round	round	ADP	_	17 mouth	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mouth	nmod:poss
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 frown	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 frown	det
20	frown	frown	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mouth	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 brow	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 brow	nmod:poss
23	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grow	obl
24	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	parataxis
25	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grow	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 heard	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 heard	cc
28	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tones	det
30	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tones	amod
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 mocking	cc
32	mocking	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 tones	amod
33	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 heard	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 which	case
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 answered	obl
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 answered	nsubj
37	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 tones	acl:relcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 woman	det
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 woman	amod
40	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 answered	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 saying	punct
42	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 heard	conj
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	all courtiers and counsellors	the hard lines			round King's mouth and the frown	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer line=Stimulus
2	grow	present				King's brow	smooth property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brow=Location
3	hear	past		the mild mocking tones				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tone=Stimulus
4	mock	gerund						vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	answer speech: assert	past	King		the old woman	the mild mocking tones		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality
6	say speech: assert	gerund						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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