The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 17

One day she was sitting in the palace feeling rather dull and lonely, and suddenly she began to wonder what the servants were doing, and whether it was not more amusing down in their quarters.

Who acts: princess, servants, palace · What happens: sit, feel, begin, wonder, do, not amuse down · To what, where: palace, quarters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, servants, palace), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 palace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 palace	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
9	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sitting	advcl
10	rather	rather	ADV	_	11 dull	advmod
11	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feeling	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lonely	cc
13	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dull	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	18 began	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 wonder	mark
20	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 doing	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 servants	det
23	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 doing	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 doing	aux
25	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 wonder	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 amusing	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 amusing	cc
28	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	33 amusing	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 amusing	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 amusing	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 amusing	advmod
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 amusing	advmod
33	amusing	amuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 began	advcl
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 amusing	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 quarters	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 quarters	nmod:poss
37	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 amusing	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	princess	the palace	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in palace=Location
2	feel	gerund	princess not said here			dull property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	begin	past	princess			suddenly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	wonder speech: ask	to-infinitive	princess not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	past · progressive	the servants				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	not amuse down	past · progressive	palace	servants's quarters		down property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: 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 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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