The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 22

The Queen was delighted with him, so were all her ladies; and the King was very polite to him, though he did not quite see why the whole court was making such a fuss over him.

Who acts: Queen, King, Prince, whole court · What happens: be, not see, make · To what, where: ladies, Prince, fuss

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, King, Prince, whole court), 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 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 delighted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 delighted	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ladies	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 ladies	advmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ladies	cop
10	all	all	ADV	_	12 ladies	advmod
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ladies	nmod:poss
12	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 delighted	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 polite	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 polite	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 polite	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 polite	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 polite	advmod
19	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 delighted	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 polite	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 see	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 see	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 see	advmod
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 see	advmod
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 polite	conj
29	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	34 making	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 court	det
31	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 court	amod
32	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 making	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 making	aux
34	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 see	advcl
35	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	37 fuss	det:predet
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 fuss	det
37	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 making	obj
38	over	over	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 making	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Queen			with Prince; delighted property	tree rules
2	is a	past		Queen's ladies		all property	tree rules
3	is	past	the King		Prince	polite property	tree rules
4	not see	past · do-support	Prince				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	make	past · progressive	the whole court	such fuss		over Prince	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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