The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 41

Now, although the rajah of Rahmatabad had no son, he possessed a daughter, who as she grew up became the most beautiful creature that eye ever rested upon.

Who acts: rajah, fame, daughter · What happens: have, possess, grow up, become, rest · To what, where: son, daughter, beautiful creature

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rajah, fame, 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	13 possessed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	although	although	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rajah	det
5	rajah	rajah	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Rahmatabad	case
7	Rahmatabad	Rahmatabad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rajah	nmod
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 possessed	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 son	det
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 possessed	nsubj
13	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 daughter	det
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 possessed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 became	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 became	nsubj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 grew	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grew	nsubj
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 who	acl:relcl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 grew	compound:prt
22	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 daughter	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 creature	det
24	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	25 beautiful	advmod
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 creature	amod
26	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 became	xcomp
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 rested	nsubj:pass
28	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rested	nsubj:pass
29	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 rested	advmod
30	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 creature	acl:relcl
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 rested	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 possessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	the rajah of Rahmatabad	no son		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	possess	past	rajah	a daughter	now	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot daughter=Theme
3	grow up	past	fame			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past	a daughter	the beautiful creature		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	rest	participle · passive		the beautiful creature	ever	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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