The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 30

All the courtiers standing round were much amazed at the King’s grief, but no one dared to ask him the cause of it.

Who acts: courtiers, one · What happens: stand, amaze, dare, ask, cause · To what, where: courtiers, grief, cause, KING

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtiers, one), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 courtiers	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 courtiers	det
3	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 amazed	nsubj:pass
4	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 courtiers	acl
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 standing	advmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 amazed	aux:pass
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 amazed	advmod
8	amazed	amaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	13 grief	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 grief	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 King	case
13	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 amazed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dared	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 dared	cc
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dared	nsubj
18	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 amazed	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 ask	mark
20	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 dared	xcomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ask	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cause	det
23	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ask	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cause	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 amazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund	all courtiers not said here				round property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	amaze	past · passive		all courtiers		the King's grief		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	dare	past	no one					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	no one not said here	the cause of cause	KING			tree rules
5	cause			cause				nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient

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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