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The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 27

The old King, who was looking out of his window, beheld her in this plight, and it struck him how sweet and gentle, even beautiful, she looked.

Who acts: old King, plight, Princess · What happens: look out, behold, strike, look · To what, where: window, Princess, plight, King

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old King, plight, Princess), 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

detamodnsubjpunctnsubjauxaclcasecasenmod:possoblpunctobjcasedetoblpunctccnsubjconjobjadvmodadvclccconjpunctadvmodconjpunctnsubjconjpunctrootTheDEToldADJKingPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONwasAUXlookingVERBoutADPofADPhisPRONwindowNOUN,PUNCTbeheldVERBherPRONinADPthisDETplightNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJitPRONstruckVERBhimPRONhowADVsweetADJandCCONJgentleADJ,PUNCTevenADVbeautifulADJ,PUNCTshePRONlookedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Kingdet
2oldoldADJDegree=Pos3 Kingamod
3KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing13 beheldnsubj
4,,PUNCT_7 lookingpunct
5whowhoPRONPronType=Rel7 lookingnsubj
6wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 lookingaux
7lookinglookVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 Kingacl
8outoutADP_11 windowcase
9ofofADP_11 windowcase
10hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 windownmod:poss
11windowwindowNOUNNumber=Sing7 lookingobl
12,,PUNCT_13 beheldpunct
13beheldbeholdVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
14hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 beheldobj
15ininADP_17 plightcase
16thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem17 plightdet
17plightplightNOUNNumber=Sing13 beheldobl
18,,PUNCT_21 struckpunct
19andandCCONJ_21 struckcc
20ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 strucknsubj
21struckstrikeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 beheldconj
22himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 struckobj
23howhowADVPronType=Int24 sweetadvmod
24sweetsweetADJDegree=Pos21 struckadvcl
25andandCCONJ_26 gentlecc
26gentlegentleADJDegree=Pos24 sweetconj
27,,PUNCT_29 beautifulpunct
28evenevenADV_29 beautifuladvmod
29beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos24 sweetconj
30,,PUNCT_32 lookedpunct
31sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 lookednsubj
32lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 struckconj
33..PUNCT_13 beheldpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1look outpast · progressivethe old KingKing's windowtree rules
2beholdpastthe old KingPrincessthis plightvn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3strikepastplightKingvn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
4lookpastPrincessvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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