The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 24

His father was much surprised to see the King’s son in his quiet little house, and he felt rather embarrassed, not knowing what was the proper way to behave on such a grand occasion.

Who acts: father, youth, proper way · What happens: be, see, feel, not know, behave · To what, where: son, quiet little house, grand occasion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, youth, proper way), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 surprised	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 surprised	advmod
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 surprised	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 son	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 King	case
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 house	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 house	nmod:poss
14	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 house	amod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 house	amod
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 felt	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 felt	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 felt	nsubj
20	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	conj
21	rather	rather	ADV	_	22 embarrassed	advmod
22	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 felt	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knowing	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 knowing	advmod
25	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 felt	advcl
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 knowing	ccomp
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 what	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 way	det
29	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 way	amod
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 what	nsubj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 behave	mark
32	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 way	acl
33	on	on	ADP	_	37 occasion	case
34	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	37 occasion	det:predet
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 occasion	det
36	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 occasion	amod
37	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 behave	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	youth's father			surprised property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	youth's father not said here	the King's son	youth's quiet little house		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus
3	feel	past	youth			embarrassed property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	not know	gerund	youth not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	the proper way				tree rules
6	behave	to-infinitive	the proper way not said here		such grand occasion		vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

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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