The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 37

One morning she was playing on her harp in the queen's chamber when the king burst into the room and clasped his daughter in his arms with an energy that almost frightened her.

Who acts: Muffette, king · What happens: play, burst, clasp, frighten · To what, where: harp, room, daughter, arms, energy

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muffette, king), 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 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 playing	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 playing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 playing	aux
5	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 harp	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 harp	nmod:poss
8	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 playing	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 chamber	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 queen	det
11	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chamber	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 queen	case
13	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 playing	obl
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 burst	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 burst	nsubj
17	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 chamber	acl:relcl
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 room	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 room	det
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 burst	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 clasped	cc
22	clasped	clasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 burst	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 daughter	nmod:poss
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 clasped	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 arms	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 arms	nmod:poss
27	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 clasped	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 energy	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 energy	det
30	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 clasped	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 frightened	obj
32	almost	almost	ADV	_	33 frightened	advmod
33	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 energy	acl:relcl
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 frightened	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 playing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · progressive	Muffette		Muffette's harp	morning	in the queen's chamber	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	burst	past	the king		the room			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	clasp	past	the king not said here	king's daughter	king's arms		with a energy	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient with energy=Instrument
4	frighten	past		a energy			almost property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer she=Result

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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