The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 21

No cauldron was to be seen there, but on a bench someone was seated who was like a king’s daughter, but, whosoever she was, she was so beautiful that never in the Prince’s life had he seen her equal.

Who acts: fire, life, Prince · What happens: see whosoever, seat, be, have, see · To what, where: cauldron, someone, bench

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, life, Prince), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cauldron	det
2	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux:pass
4	to	to	PART	_	6 seen	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 seen	aux:pass
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 seen	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seated	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 seated	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 bench	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bench	det
12	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seated	obl
13	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 seated	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seated	aux:pass
15	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 seen	conj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 daughter	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 daughter	cop
18	like	like	ADP	_	22 daughter	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 daughter	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 king	case
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seated	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 whosoever	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 whosoever	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 whosoever	punct
26	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 seen	compound:prt
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 was	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 whosoever	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 beautiful	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 beautiful	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 beautiful	cop
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 beautiful	advmod
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seen	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 had	mark
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	40 life	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	40 life	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Prince	det
38	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 life	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 Prince	case
40	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 had	nsubj
41	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 beautiful	advcl
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 seen	nsubj
43	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 had	xcomp
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 equal	nmod:poss
45	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 seen	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see whosoever	past · passive		no cauldron	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	seat	past · passive		someone	a bench		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
3	is	past				like a king's daughter	tree rules
4	is	past	fire			beautiful property	tree rules
5	have	past	the Prince's life				tree rules
6	see	participle	Prince				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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