The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 22

She was carefully holding the box upon her lap when she suddenly felt the greatest desire to open it.

Who acts: Graciosa · What happens: hold, feel, open · To what, where: box, lap, greatest desire

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graciosa), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 holding	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 holding	aux
3	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	4 holding	advmod
4	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 box	det
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holding	obj
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 lap	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lap	nmod:poss
9	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holding	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 felt	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 felt	nsubj
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	13 felt	advmod
13	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 holding	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 desire	det
15	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 desire	amod
16	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 felt	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 open	mark
18	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 desire	acl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 open	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 holding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	past · progressive	Graciosa	the box	Graciosa's lap	carefully property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent box=Theme upon lap=Location
2	feel	past	Graciosa	the greatest desire		suddenly property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme
3	open	to-infinitive	Graciosa not said here	box			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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