The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 16

The princess was just going out for a walk, and directly she saw him lying there, she burst into tears and fell on her knees beside him.

Who acts: princess, fox · What happens: go out, see, lie, burst, fall · To what, where: fox, tears, knees

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2435:2226): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 going	compound:prt
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 walk	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 walk	det
9	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 burst	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 burst	cc
12	directly	directly	SCONJ	_	14 saw	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 burst	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	obj
16	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 saw	xcomp
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 lying	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 burst	nsubj
20	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	22 tears	case
22	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 burst	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 burst	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 knees	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 knees	nmod:poss
27	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fell	obl
28	beside	beside	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fell	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go out	past · progressive	the princess			for a walk	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	princess	fox			tree rules
3	lie	gerund	fox not said here		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	burst	past	princess		tears		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	past	princess not said here		princess's knees	beside fox	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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