The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 18

The King sent her a letter every day, but at last, one morning, as she looked out of the palace window, she saw a messenger approaching in hot haste.

Who acts: King, Queen, messenger · What happens: send, look out, see, approach · To what, where: letter, Queen, palace window, messenger, hot haste

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Queen, messenger), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 letter	det
6	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 morning	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 morning	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 morning	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 last	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 morning	nummod
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 looked	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 looked	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 looked	nsubj
19	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	24 window	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 window	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 window	det
23	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 window	compound
24	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looked	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 messenger	det
29	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saw	obj
30	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 messenger	acl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 haste	case
32	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 haste	amod
33	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 approaching	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	send	past	the King	a letter	Queen		day; morning	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination letter=Theme
2	look out	past	Queen	the palace window				tree rules
3	see	past	Queen	a messenger				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer messenger=Stimulus
4	approach	gerund	a messenger not said here			hot haste		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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