The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 53

Now the window in the room of the eldest overlooked the gardens of the king, and when she saw how fine and ripe the medlars were on the trees, she longed to eat some, and begged Maria to scramble down by a rope and pick her a few, and she would draw her up again.

Who acts: eldest, Maria, medlars · What happens: overlook, see, ripe, be, long, eat · To what, where: gardens, fine, trees, some, Maria, few

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest, Maria, medlars), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 window	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 window	det
3	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 window	nmod
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 overlooked	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eldest	det
9	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 overlooked	nsubj
10	overlooked	overlook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 room	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gardens	det
12	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 overlooked	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 king	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gardens	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 saw	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 overlooked	conj
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 fine	advmod
22	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 saw	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ripe	cc
24	ripe	ripe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 fine	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 medlars	det
26	medlars	medlar	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 trees	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 trees	cop
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 trees	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 trees	det
30	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 ripe	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 longed	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 longed	nsubj
33	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fine	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	35 eat	mark
35	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 longed	xcomp
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 eat	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 begged	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 begged	cc
39	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 longed	conj
40	Maria	Maria	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 begged	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 scramble	mark
42	scramble	scramble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 begged	xcomp
43	down	down	ADP	_	42 scramble	compound:prt
44	by	by	ADP	_	46 rope	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 rope	det
46	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 scramble	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 pick	cc
48	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 scramble	conj
49	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 pick	obj
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 few	det
51	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 pick	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 draw	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 draw	cc
54	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 draw	nsubj
55	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 draw	aux
56	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 begged	conj
57	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 draw	obj
58	up	up	ADP	_	56 draw	compound:prt
59	again	again	ADV	_	56 draw	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 window	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overlook	past	the eldest	the gardens of the king					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme
2	see	past	Maria	fine					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fine=Stimulus
3	ripe	infinitive	Maria not said here						tree rules
4	is	past	the medlars			the trees			tree rules
5	long	past	Maria						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	Maria not said here	some					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
7	beg speech: request	past	Maria not said here		Maria				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent maria=Recipient clause=Topic
8	scramble down not said to happen	to-infinitive	Maria not said here					by a rope	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by rope=Trajectory
9	pick	infinitive	Maria not said here	a few	Maria				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary few=Theme
10	draw up	would	Maria	sister			again		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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