The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 90

At length, seeing that his resolution was firmly fixed, she took from a cabinet a little box which contained her picture, and gave it to him saying:

Who acts: length, Majesty, little box, guest · What happens: see, fix, take, contain, give, say · To what, where: resolution, little box, length, picture, box, guest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (length, Majesty, little box, guest), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seeing	punct
4	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 length	acl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 fixed	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 resolution	nmod:poss
7	resolution	resolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fixed	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fixed	aux:pass
9	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	10 fixed	advmod
10	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 seeing	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 cabinet	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cabinet	det
16	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 box	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 box	amod
19	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 contained	nsubj
21	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 box	acl:relcl
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 picture	nmod:poss
23	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 contained	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gave	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gave	cc
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	obl
30	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 gave	advcl
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	length not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	fix	past · passive		guest's resolution			firmly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
3	take	past	Majesty	a little box		length	from a cabinet	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent box=Theme at length=Asset from cabinet=Source
4	contain	past	a little box	Majesty's picture				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot picture=Theme
5	give	past	Majesty not said here	box	guest			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient
6	say speech: assert	gerund	Majesty not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	resolve		guest					nom resolution «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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