The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 117

But Abu Nowas happened to be sitting with his wife behind the latticed window, which looked on the street, and he saw the man coming, and sprang up at once.

Who acts: Abu, latticed window, man · What happens: happen, sit, lattice, look, see, come · To what, where: latticed window, man

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abu, latticed window, man), 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 happened	cc
2	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 happened	nsubj
3	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Abu	flat
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 sitting	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 sitting	aux
7	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	14 window	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 window	det
13	latticed	lattice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 window	amod
14	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 looked	nsubj
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 window	acl:relcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 street	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 street	det
20	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 saw	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saw	obj
27	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 man	acl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sprang	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sprang	cc
30	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 saw	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 sprang	compound:prt
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 once	case
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 sprang	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Abu				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	to-infinitive · progressive	Abu not said here		the latticed window	with Abu's wife	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind window=Location
3	lattice	participle					tree rules
4	look	past	the latticed window			on the street	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on street=Theme
5	see	past	Abu	the man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
6	come	gerund	the man not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	spring up	past	Abu not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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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