The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 76

When he was seated the damsel came forth and greeted him, and glad was he when he saw her and inquired what castle that was before him.

Who acts: damsel, man · What happens: seat, come, greet, be, inquire · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (damsel, man), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 seated	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seated	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seated	aux:pass
4	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 came	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 damsel	det
6	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	forth	forth	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 greeted	cc
10	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 greeted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 glad	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 glad	cc
14	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 came	parataxis
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saw	cop
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	nsubj
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 saw	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 glad	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 inquired	cc
22	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saw	conj
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 him	nsubj
24	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 him	nsubj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 him	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 him	cop
27	before	before	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 inquired	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	seat	past · passive		man				vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
2	come	past	the damsel				forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	greet speech: greet	past	the damsel not said here		man			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	is	past	man				see property	tree rules
5	inquire speech: other	past	man not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past				before man		tree rules

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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