The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 31

The king was eagerly awaiting her, and when she arrived he begged her politely to raise her veil and let him see her face.

Who acts: king, woman · What happens: await, arrive, beg, raise, let, see · To what, where: woman, veil, King, face

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, woman), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 awaiting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 awaiting	aux
4	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	5 awaiting	advmod
5	awaiting	await	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 awaiting	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 begged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 begged	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 arrived	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 arrived	nsubj
11	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 begged	advcl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 begged	nsubj
13	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 awaiting	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 begged	obj
15	politely	politely	ADV	_	13 begged	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 raise	mark
17	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 begged	advcl
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 veil	nmod:poss
19	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 raise	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 let	cc
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 raise	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 face	nmod:poss
25	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 awaiting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	await	past · progressive	the king	woman		eagerly property	tree rules
2	arrive	past	woman				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	beg speech: request	past	King		woman	politely property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	raise	to-infinitive	King not said here	woman's veil			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme
5	let	infinitive	King not said here	King			tree rules
6	see	infinitive	King not said here	woman's face			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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