The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 49

Glad was she to see him enter, but she said little, only took her harp and sang softly the songs which he loved, till he went to bed, soothed and happy.

Who acts: Glad, king · What happens: see, enter, say, take, sing, love · To what, where: king, little, harp, songs, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Glad, 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	Glad	glad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj
7	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 see	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	advcl
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 took	advmod
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 harp	nmod:poss
17	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sang	cc
19	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
20	softly	softly	ADV	_	19 sang	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 songs	det
22	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sang	obj
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 loved	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 loved	nsubj
25	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 songs	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 went	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 loved	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 bed	case
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 soothed	punct
33	soothed	soothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 went	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 happy	cc
35	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 soothed	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Glad	king			tree rules
2	enter	infinitive	king not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Glad	little			tree rules
4	take	past		Glad's harp			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Theme
5	sing speech: express	past		the songs		softly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
6	love	past	king	the songs			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
7	go	past	king		bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
8	soothe	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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