The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 16

Even King Gridelin, who had never cared for anything since the disappearance of Queen Santorina, was roused by this new loss, and though he could not so much as look at the Princess Placida without shedding floods of tears, he resolved to see for himself what talents and capabilities she showed.

Who acts: new loss, Vivien, talents, Queen, tears · What happens: not care, rouse, look, shed, resolve, see · To what, where: King, floods · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (new loss, Vivien, talents, Queen), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	2 King	advmod
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 roused	nsubj:pass
3	Gridelin	Gridelin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 King	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cared	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 cared	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cared	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 cared	advmod
8	cared	care	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 King	acl:relcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 anything	case
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 cared	obl
11	since	since	ADP	_	13 disappearance	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 disappearance	det
13	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 anything	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Queen	case
15	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 disappearance	nmod
16	Santorina	Santorina	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Queen	flat
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 King	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 roused	aux:pass
19	roused	rouse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 loss	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 loss	det
22	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 loss	amod
23	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 roused	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 look	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 look	cc
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	31 much	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 much	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 much	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 much	advmod
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADV	_	33 look	advcl
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 look	mark
33	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 roused	parataxis
34	at	at	ADP	_	37 Placida	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Placida	det
36	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Placida	compound
37	Placida	Placida	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 look	obl
38	without	without	SCONJ	_	39 shedding	mark
39	shedding	shed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 look	advcl
40	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 shedding	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 tears	case
42	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 floods	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 resolved	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 resolved	nsubj
45	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 roused	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 see	mark
47	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 resolved	xcomp
48	for	for	ADP	_	49 himself	case
49	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	47 see	obl
50	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	55 showed	obj
51	talents	talent	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 showed	nsubj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 capabilities	cc
53	capabilities	capability	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 talents	conj
54	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 showed	nsubj
55	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 see	ccomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 roused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not care	past · perfect · passive		King	for anything	tree rules
2	rouse	past · passive	this new loss	King		vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	look	infinitive			at the Princess Placida	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at placida=Theme
4	shed	gerund		floods of tears		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flood=Source
5	resolve	past	Vivien			tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive	Vivien not said here		for Vivien	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	show	past	talents and capabilities			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
8	disappear		Queen			nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=agent
9	flood		tears			nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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