The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 39

But the King came towards her and gave her his hand, and danced with her, thinking to himself, ‘My eyes have never beheld anyone so fair!’

Who acts: King · What happens: come, give, dance, think, not behold · To what, where: hand, cook, anyone, King, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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	_	4 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 danced	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 danced	cc
14	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 danced	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thinking	punct
18	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 anyone	csubj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 thinking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thinking	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 beheld	punct
23	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 eyes	nmod:poss
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 beheld	nsubj:pass
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 beheld	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 beheld	advmod
27	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 anyone	amod
28	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 danced	obl
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 fair	advmod
30	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 anyone	amod
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 anyone	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 anyone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the King			towards cook	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards she=Initial_Location
2	give	past	the King not said here	King's hand	cook		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient hand=Theme
3	dance	past	the King not said here	anyone		with cook	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	gerund			King		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not behold	present · perfect · passive		My eyes			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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