The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 26

But the King’s son thought often of the lovely maiden whom he had only seen for a moment, though she seemed to him much more fascinating than any lady of the Court.

Who acts: son, shepherdess · What happens: think, see, seem · To what, where: son

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, shepherdess), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 thought	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 son	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 King	case
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	often	often	ADV	_	11 maiden	advmod
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 maiden	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 maiden	det
10	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 maiden	amod
11	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thought	ccomp
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 seen	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seen	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 seen	advmod
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 maiden	advcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 moment	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 moment	det
19	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seemed	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 seemed	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seemed	nsubj
23	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seemed	obl
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 more	advmod
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 fascinating	advmod
28	fascinating	fascinating	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 seemed	xcomp
29	than	than	ADP	_	31 lady	case
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 lady	det
31	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fascinating	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 Court	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Court	det
34	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lady	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the King's son				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past · perfect	son		moment		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	seem	past	shepherdess	son		fascinating property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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 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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