The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 49

The courtiers could not help seeing that what they had told the King did not please him, and one of them cunningly began to praise Fiordelisa, when he could talk to the King without being heard by the others.

Who acts: courtiers, King, one, Fiordelisa, others · What happens: not help, see, tell, not please, begin, praise · To what, where: courtiers, Sire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtiers, King, one, Fiordelisa), 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 courtiers	det
2	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 help	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 help	advmod
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 help	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 told	mark
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 told	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 seeing	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 please	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 please	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 please	advmod
16	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 please	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 began	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 one	nmod
23	cunningly	cunningly	ADV	_	24 began	advmod
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 help	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 praise	mark
26	praise	praise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 talk	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 talk	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 talk	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 talk	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 talk	aux
32	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 praise	ccomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 King	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 King	det
35	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 talk	obl
36	without	without	SCONJ	_	38 heard	mark
37	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 heard	aux:pass
38	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 talk	advcl
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 others	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 others	det
41	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 heard	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not help	could	the courtiers			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	gerund	the courtiers not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		courtiers = courtier		tree rules
4	not please	past · do-support	the King	Sire		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	begin	past	one of courtiers		cunningly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	praise	to-infinitive	one of courtiers not said here			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
7	talk	could	Fiordelisa		to the King	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to king=Co-Agent
8	hear	gerund · passive	the others			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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