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The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 32

When he took the cover off the basket, the king and all his courtiers said with one voice that these were the finest pearls they had ever seen, and they could not take their eyes off them.

Who acts: king, courtiers, these, pearls · What happens: take, say, be, see, not take · To what, where: cover, basket, finest pearls, one voice, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, courtiers, these, pearls), 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

advmodnsubjdetobjcasedetoblpunctdetapposccdet:predetnmod:possnsubjconjcasenummodoblnsubjnsubjcopdetamodnsubj:passnsubjauxadvmodacl:relclpunctccnsubjauxadvmodparataxisnmod:possobjcaseoblpunctrootWhenADVhePRONtookVERBtheDETcoverNOUNoffADPtheDETbasketNOUN,PUNCTtheDETkingNOUNandCCONJallDEThisPRONcourtiersNOUNsaidVERBwithADPoneNUMvoiceNOUNthatPRONthesePRONwereAUXtheDETfinestADJpearlsNOUNtheyPRONhadAUXeverADVseenVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONcouldAUXnotPARTtakeVERBtheirPRONeyesNOUNoffADPthemPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 tookadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 tooknsubj
3tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 coverdet
5covercoverNOUNNumber=Sing3 tookobj
6offoffADP_8 basketcase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 basketdet
8basketbasketNOUNNumber=Sing3 tookobl
9,,PUNCT_11 kingpunct
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 kingdet
11kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing8 basketappos
12andandCCONJ_16 saidcc
13allallDETPronType=Tot15 courtiersdet:predet
14hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 courtiersnmod:poss
15courtierscourtierNOUNNumber=Plur16 saidnsubj
16saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 tookconj
17withwithADP_19 voicecase
18oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card19 voicenummod
19voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing16 saidobl
20thatthatPRONPronType=Rel29 seennsubj
21thesethisPRONNumber=Plur PronType=Dem25 pearlsnsubj
22werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 pearlscop
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 pearlsdet
24finestfineADJDegree=Sup25 pearlsamod
25pearlspearlNOUNNumber=Plur29 seennsubj:pass
26theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs29 seennsubj
27hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 seenaux
28evereverADVPronType=Ind29 seenadvmod
29seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 voiceacl:relcl
30,,PUNCT_35 takepunct
31andandCCONJ_35 takecc
32theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs35 takensubj
33couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin35 takeaux
34notnotPARTPolarity=Neg35 takeadvmod
35taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf3 tookparataxis
36theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs37 eyesnmod:poss
37eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur35 takeobj
38offoffADP_39 themcase
39themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs35 takeobl
40..PUNCT_3 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1takepastkingthe coverthe basketvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cover=Theme off basket=Initial_Location
2say speech: assertpastking's courtierswith one voicevn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with voice=Manner
3is apastthesethe finest pearlstree rules
4seepast · perfect · passiveone voiceevervn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5not takecouldpearls = pearlpearls's eyesoff courtiers = courtiervn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme off they=Initial_Location

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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