The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 56

The king greeted every one very kindly, but he would not so much as look at the queen.

Who acts: king, last · What happens: greet, look · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, last), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 greeted	nsubj
3	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 greeted	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 kindly	advmod
7	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	3 greeted	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 look	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 look	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 look	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 look	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 much	advmod
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADV	_	16 look	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 look	mark
16	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 greeted	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 queen	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 queen	det
19	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 look	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 greeted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	past	the king	every one				kindly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	look	would	last					at the queen	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at queen=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 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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