The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 37
But the Princess’s affection for the Crab, and the polite attention with which she behaved to him, surprised the royal family very much.
Who acts: affection · What happens: behave, surprise · To what, where: man, royal family
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (affection), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 surprised | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 affection | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Princess | case |
| 5 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 surprised | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Crab | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Crab | det |
| 8 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 affection | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 attention | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 attention | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 attention | det |
| 12 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 attention | amod |
| 13 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 affection | appos |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 behaved | obl |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 behaved | nsubj |
| 17 | behaved | behave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 attention | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 behaved | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 affection | punct |
| 21 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 family | det |
| 23 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 family | amod |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 surprised | obj |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 much | advmod |
| 26 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 surprised | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behave | past | affection | man | with the polite attention | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | surprise | past | the Princess's affection for the Crab | the royal family | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus family=Experiencer |
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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