The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 133
Great was the wonder over all the palace, and the king and queen seemed very much put out, but it was noticed that the princess actually smiled to Jesper.
Who acts: Great wonder, princess · What happens: be, seem, put out, notice, smile · To what, where: Great wonder, palace, home, Jesper
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great wonder, princess), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wonder | amod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wonder | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wonder | det |
| 4 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 palace | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wonder | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seemed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 queen | cc |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | conj |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 put | advmod |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seemed | xcomp |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 put | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 noticed | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 noticed | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 noticed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 noticed | aux:pass |
| 24 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 seemed | parataxis |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 smiled | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 princess | det |
| 27 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 smiled | nsubj |
| 28 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 29 smiled | advmod |
| 29 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 noticed | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Jesper | case |
| 31 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 smiled | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Great wonder | all palace | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | the Great wonder | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | put out | infinitive | the Great wonder not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | notice | past · passive | home | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | smile | past | the princess | Jesper | actually property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to jesper=Recipient |
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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