The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 3

The queen, who was looking out of the window, saw him approaching, and filled with pity sent a servant to ask who he was and what he wanted.

Who acts: queen, land, pity · What happens: look out, see, approach, fill, send, ask · To what, where: window, land, servant

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, land, pity), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looking	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 looking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looking	aux
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 queen	acl:relcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 window	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 window	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 window	det
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 queen	punct
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	obj
14	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 saw	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 filled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 filled	cc
17	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 saw	conj
18	with	with	SCONJ	_	20 sent	mark
19	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sent	nsubj
20	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 filled	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 servant	det
22	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sent	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 ask	mark
24	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sent	advcl
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 ask	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 what	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 what	cop
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 what	cc
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 who	conj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wanted	nsubj
31	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 what	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look out	past · progressive	the queen	the window	tree rules
2	see	past	the queen	land	tree rules
3	approach	gerund	land not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fill	participle	the queen not said here		tree rules
5	send	past	pity	a servant	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	pity not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent who=Recipient
7	is a	past	land		tree rules
8	want	past	land		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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