The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 6

Often she was very sad and lonely, and it happened that one day while she was seated at the window, letting salt tears drop on her work, an old woman, a kind, homely-looking old body, stepped up to the window, and, leaning upon her crutch, addressed the Queen in friendly, flattering tones, saying:

Who acts: Queen, it, salt tears, leaning · What happens: be, happen, seat, let, drop, look · To what, where: Queen, window, work, crutch, friendly flattering tones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, it, salt tears, leaning), 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	Often	often	ADV	_	5 sad	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 sad	advmod
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lonely	cc
7	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sad	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 happened	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 happened	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 happened	nsubj
11	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 day	mark
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 day	nummod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 happened	obl:unmarked
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 seated	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seated	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seated	aux:pass
18	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 happened	advcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 window	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 window	det
21	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seated	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 letting	punct
23	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 seated	advcl
24	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tears	compound
25	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 drop	nsubj
26	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 letting	xcomp
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 work	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 work	nmod:poss
29	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drop	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 woman	punct
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 woman	det
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 woman	amod
33	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 work	appos
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 body	punct
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 body	det
36	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 body	amod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 kind	punct
38	homely	homely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 looking	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 homely	punct
40	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 body	amod
41	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 body	amod
42	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 woman	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 stepped	punct
44	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 happened	parataxis
45	up	up	ADP	_	44 stepped	compound:prt
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 window	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 window	det
48	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 stepped	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 addressed	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 addressed	cc
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 leaning	punct
52	leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	57 addressed	csubj
53	upon	upon	ADP	_	55 crutch	case
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 crutch	nmod:poss
55	crutch	crutch	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 leaning	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 leaning	punct
57	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 stepped	conj
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Queen	det
59	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 addressed	obj
60	in	in	ADP	_	64 tones	case
61	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 tones	amod
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 friendly	punct
63	flattering	flattering	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 tones	amod
64	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 addressed	obl
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 saying	punct
66	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	57 addressed	advcl
67	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Queen					often, sad property	tree rules
2	be		Queen not said here						tree rules
3	happen	past	it				day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seat	past · passive		Queen		the window			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
5	let	gerund							tree rules
6	drop	present	salt tears			Queen's work			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on work=Trajectory
7	look	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	step up	past				the window			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to window=Destination
9	lean	gerund				Queen's crutch			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon crutch=Location
10	address	past	leaning		the Queen	friendly flattering tones			vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Destination
11	say speech: assert	gerund	leaning not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
12	work		Queen						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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