The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 58
But her father was much surprised that she did not seem to care about any of the Princes; he therefore appointed a second tournament.
Who acts: father, Princess, husband · What happens: be, not seem, care, appoint · To what, where: second tournament
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 (father, Princess, husband), 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 | _ | 6 surprised | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 surprised | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 surprised | cop |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 surprised | advmod |
| 6 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 seem | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seem | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seem | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 seem | advmod |
| 11 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 surprised | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 care | mark |
| 13 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seem | xcomp |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 any | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 care | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Princes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princes | det |
| 18 | Princes | Prince | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 any | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 appointed | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 appointed | nsubj |
| 21 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 22 appointed | advmod |
| 22 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 surprised | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tournament | det |
| 24 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 tournament | amod |
| 25 | tournament | tournament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 appointed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Princess's father | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not seem | past · do-support | Princess | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | care | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | about any | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about any=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | appoint | past | husband | a second tournament | therefore property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tournament=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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