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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 10

She received the King as if she were expecting him, and he saw that she was certainly very beautiful; but she did not please him, and he could not look at her without a secret feeling of horror.

Who acts: daughter, king · What happens: receive, expect, see, be, not please, not look · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, 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

nsubjdetobjmarkmarknsubjauxadvclobjpunctccnsubjconjmarknsubjcopadvmodadvmodccomppunctccnsubjauxadvmodparataxisobjpunctccnsubjauxadvmodconjcaseoblcasedetamodoblcasenmodpunctrootShePRONreceivedVERBtheDETKingPROPNasSCONJifSCONJshePRONwereAUXexpectingVERBhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONsawVERBthatSCONJshePRONwasAUXcertainlyADVveryADVbeautifulADJ;PUNCTbutCCONJshePRONdidAUXnotPARTpleaseVERBhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONcouldAUXnotPARTlookVERBatADPherPRONwithoutADPaDETsecretADJfeelingNOUNofADPhorrorNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 receivednsubj
2receivedreceiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Kingdet
4KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing2 receivedobj
5asasSCONJ_9 expectingmark
6ififSCONJ_9 expectingmark
7sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 expectingnsubj
8werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 expectingaux
9expectingexpectVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 receivedadvcl
10himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 expectingobj
11,,PUNCT_14 sawpunct
12andandCCONJ_14 sawcc
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 sawnsubj
14sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 receivedconj
15thatthatSCONJ_20 beautifulmark
16sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 beautifulnsubj
17wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 beautifulcop
18certainlycertainlyADV_20 beautifuladvmod
19veryveryADV_20 beautifuladvmod
20beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos14 sawccomp
21;;PUNCT_26 pleasepunct
22butbutCCONJ_26 pleasecc
23sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 pleasensubj
24diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 pleaseaux
25notnotPARTPolarity=Neg26 pleaseadvmod
26pleasepleaseVERBVerbForm=Inf2 receivedparataxis
27himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 pleaseobj
28,,PUNCT_33 lookpunct
29andandCCONJ_33 lookcc
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 looknsubj
31couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin33 lookaux
32notnotPARTPolarity=Neg33 lookadvmod
33looklookVERBVerbForm=Inf26 pleaseconj
34atatADP_35 hercase
35hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 lookobl
36withoutwithoutADP_39 feelingcase
37aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art39 feelingdet
38secretsecretADJDegree=Pos39 feelingamod
39feelingfeelingNOUNNumber=Sing33 lookobl
40ofofADP_41 horrorcase
41horrorhorrorNOUNNumber=Sing39 feelingnmod
42..PUNCT_2 receivedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1receivepastdaughterthe Kingvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme
2expectpast · progressivedaughterkingvn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3seepastkingvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4ispastdaughterbeautiful, certainly propertytree rules
5not pleasepast · do-supportdaughterkingvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
6not lookcouldkingat daughter; without a secret feeling of horrorvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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 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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