The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 32

And when the emperor saw him, he wondered, but never guessed how it was the young man had been too clever for him, till the betrothal ceremony was over.

Who acts: emperor, man, knife, betrothal ceremony · What happens: see, wonder, not guess, be · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, man, knife, betrothal ceremony), 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	_	9 wondered	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 emperor	det
4	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wondered	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wondered	nsubj
9	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 guessed	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 guessed	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 guessed	advmod
13	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wondered	parataxis
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 clever	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 clever	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 clever	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 clever	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 clever	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 clever	cop
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 clever	advmod
23	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 guessed	ccomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 clever	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 over	punct
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	32 over	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ceremony	det
29	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ceremony	compound
30	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 over	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 over	cop
32	over	over	ADV	_	13 guessed	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the emperor	man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	wonder speech: ask	past	man			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	not guess	past				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past · perfect	knife		for man; clever property	tree rules
5	is	past	the betrothal ceremony		over property	tree rules

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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