The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 34

It happened once when a great feast was being held in the palace, that she said to the cook, ‘Can I go upstairs for a little bit and look on?

Who acts: It, daughter, I · What happens: happen, hold, say, go, look on · To what, where: great feast, palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, daughter, I), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 happened	advmod
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 held	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 feast	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feast	amod
7	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 held	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 held	aux:pass
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 held	aux:pass
10	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 happened	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 held	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 said	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happened	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 cook	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cook	det
20	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
23	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 go	aux
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 go	nsubj
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
26	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 bit	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bit	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bit	amod
30	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 look	cc
32	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 go	conj
33	on	on	ADP	_	32 look	obl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It			once property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	past · passive		a great feast	the palace		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in palace=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	daughter			to the cook	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to cook=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	go	can	I			for a little bit; upstairs property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for bit=Beneficiary
5	look on	infinitive	I not said here				vn 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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