The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 6

Now this was exactly what the landlady, who was very curious, wanted to find out; but she put on a look of great alarm, and exclaimed:

Who acts: this, landlady, Daughter · What happens: be, want, find out, put, exclaim · To what, where: look, landlady

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, landlady, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 what	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 what	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 what	advmod
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 landlady	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 landlady	det
7	landlady	landlady	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 exclaimed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 curious	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 curious	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 curious	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 curious	advmod
12	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 landlady	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wanted	punct
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 curious	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 find	mark
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wanted	xcomp
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 find	compound:prt
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	nsubj
21	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 exclaimed	advcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 look	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 look	det
24	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 alarm	case
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 alarm	amod
27	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 look	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 exclaimed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 exclaimed	cc
30	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this			now	exactly property	tree rules
2	is	past	the landlady				curious property	tree rules
3	want	past	the landlady not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	find out not said to happen	to-infinitive	the landlady not said here					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	put	past	Daughter		a look of great alarm			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on look=Destination
6	exclaim speech: express	past		the landlady				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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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