The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 56

The King, however, had a counsellor called Red, who became very jealous when he saw how much the King esteemed Ring; and one day he talked to him, and said he could not understand why he had so good an opinion of this stranger, who had not yet shown himself superior to other men in anything.

Who acts: King, counsellor, Prince, good opinion · What happens: have, call, become, see, esteem, talk · To what, where: counsellor, much, Ring, good opinion, Prince, stranger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (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, counsellor, Prince, good opinion), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 King	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 counsellor	det
8	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 counsellor	acl
10	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 became	nsubj
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 counsellor	acl:relcl
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 jealous	advmod
15	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 became	xcomp
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 saw	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 jealous	advcl
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 esteemed	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 King	det
22	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 esteemed	nsubj
23	esteemed	esteem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	ccomp
24	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 esteemed	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 talked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 talked	cc
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 day	nummod
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 talked	obl:unmarked
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 talked	nsubj
30	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 talked	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 said	cc
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	parataxis
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 understand	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 understand	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 understand	advmod
39	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 said	ccomp
40	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	42 had	advmod
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 understand	ccomp
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 good	advmod
44	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 opinion	amod
45	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 opinion	det
46	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 stranger	case
48	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 stranger	det
49	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 opinion	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 shown	punct
51	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 shown	nsubj
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 shown	aux
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 shown	advmod
54	yet	yet	ADV	_	55 shown	advmod
55	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 opinion	conj
56	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	55 shown	obj
57	superior	superior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 shown	xcomp
58	to	to	ADP	_	60 men	case
59	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 men	amod
60	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 superior	obl
61	in	in	ADP	_	62 anything	case
62	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	60 men	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the King	a counsellor			however property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsellor=Patient
2	call	participle		a counsellor not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	become	past	a counsellor				jealous property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	see	past	Prince					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	esteem	past	the King	much				vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent much=Theme ring=Attribute
6	talk	past	Prince		Ring	day		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
7	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	not understand	could	Prince					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	have	past	Prince	a good opinion of this stranger				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient
10	not show	past · perfect	a good opinion of this stranger	Prince		yet	superior property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient
11	opine			this stranger				nom opinion «cognition 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 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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