The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 53

As he spoke he happened to raise his arm, and the king’s daughter, who was there at her father’s side, saw the name which she had written under it.

Who acts: son, daughter · What happens: speak, happen, raise, be, see, write · To what, where: daughter, arm, side, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, daughter), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 spoke	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 saw	advcl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 raise	mark
7	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happened	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arm	nmod:poss
9	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 raise	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 daughter	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 daughter	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 daughter	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 king	case
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 there	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 there	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 there	cop
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 daughter	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	24 side	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 father	nmod:poss
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 side	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 father	case
24	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 there	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 name	det
28	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saw	obj
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 written	obj
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 written	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 written	aux
32	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 name	acl:relcl
33	under	under	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 written	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	son	the king's daughter			tree rules
2	happen	past	son				tree rules
3	raise	to-infinitive	son not said here	son's arm			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
4	is	past	the king's daughter		daughter's father's side	there property	tree rules
5	see	past		the name			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
6	write	past · perfect	daughter	the name	name		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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