The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 143

Surcantine came in all haste to see what she could do for her darling, but he rejected with scorn all the portraits of lovely princesses which she offered him for his collection.

Who acts: Surcantine, way, Mirliflor · What happens: come, see, do, reject, offer, portray · To what, where: haste, portraits, lovely princesses, Mirliflor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Surcantine, way, Mirliflor), 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	Surcantine	Surcantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 haste	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 haste	det
5	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	advcl
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 do	obj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 see	ccomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 darling	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 darling	nmod:poss
14	darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rejected	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 rejected	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rejected	nsubj
18	rejected	reject	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 scorn	case
20	scorn	scorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rejected	obl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 portraits	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 portraits	det
23	portraits	portrait	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rejected	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 princesses	case
25	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 princesses	amod
26	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 portraits	nmod
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 offered	obj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 offered	nsubj
29	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 princesses	acl:relcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 offered	iobj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 collection	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 collection	nmod:poss
33	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 offered	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Surcantine			all haste		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in haste=Location
2	see	to-infinitive	Surcantine not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	could	way				for way's darling	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	reject	past	Mirliflor	all portraits of lovely princesses			with scorn	vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme
5	offer	past	way	lovely princesses	Mirliflor		for Mirliflor's collection	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal which=Theme
6	portray			lovely princesses				nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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