The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 103

Dawn found them still conversing; and the sun was high in the heavens before the princess perceived that she retained her human form.

Who acts: Dawn, sun, princess · What happens: find, converse, be, perceive, retain, form · To what, where: feet, heavens, human form

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dawn, sun, princess), 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	Dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 conversing	advmod
5	conversing	converse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 found	advcl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 high	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 high	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 high	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 high	cop
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 found	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 heavens	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 heavens	det
14	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 high	obl
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 perceived	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 perceived	nsubj
18	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 high	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 retained	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 retained	nsubj
21	retained	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 perceived	ccomp
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 form	nmod:poss
23	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 form	amod
24	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 retained	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Dawn	feet = foot				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
2	converse speech: other	gerund	Dawn not said here			still		vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the sun		the heavens		high property	tree rules
4	perceive	past	the princess					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	retain	past	princess	princess's human form				tree rules
6	form		princess					nom form «communication transitive»: 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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