The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 120

The Queen found it so difficult to decide on suitable names for all of them, that until she could settle the matter she chose a special colour for everyone, by which it was known, so that when they were all together they looked like nothing so much as a nosegay of gay flowers.

Who acts: Queen, that, charms · What happens: find, decide, settle, choose, know, be · To what, where: rose, matter, special colour

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, that, charms), 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 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 difficult	advmod
6	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 decide	mark
8	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 difficult	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 names	case
10	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 names	amod
11	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 decide	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 names	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 all	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 settle	punct
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 settle	nsubj
18	until	until	SCONJ	_	21 settle	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 settle	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 settle	aux
21	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 found	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 matter	det
23	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 settle	obj
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 chose	nsubj
25	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 matter	acl:relcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 colour	det
27	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 colour	amod
28	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 chose	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 everyone	case
30	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	28 colour	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 known	punct
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 known	obl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 known	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 known	aux:pass
36	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 settle	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 looked	punct
38	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	46 looked	mark
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 so	fixed
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	44 together	advmod
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 together	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 together	cop
43	all	all	ADV	_	44 together	advmod
44	together	together	ADV	_	46 looked	advmod
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 looked	nsubj
46	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 known	parataxis
47	like	like	ADP	_	48 nothing	case
48	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	46 looked	obl
49	so	so	ADV	_	50 much	advmod
50	much	much	ADV	_	53 nosegay	advmod
51	as	as	ADP	_	53 nosegay	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 nosegay	det
53	nosegay	nosegay	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 looked	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 flowers	case
55	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 flowers	amod
56	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 nosegay	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	the Queen	rose	difficult property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	decide	to-infinitive			on suitable names for all	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on name=Topic
3	settle	could	that	the matter		vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme matter=Location
4	choose	past	Queen	a special colour	for everyone	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent colour=Theme for everyone=Beneficiary
5	know	past · passive		rose		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
6	is	past	charms = charm		all, together property	tree rules
7	look	past	charms = charm		like nothing; as a nosegay of gay flowers	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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