The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 34

As soon as the prince was awake he hastened to the place where, only the day before, he had found the white doe feeding; but of course she had taken care to go in the opposite direction.

Who acts: prince, doe, longing · What happens: be, hasten, find, take, go · To what, where: place, white doe feeding, care, opposite direction

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 (prince, doe, longing), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 hastened	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 awake	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 awake	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 awake	cop
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 soon	advcl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hastened	nsubj
9	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 place	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 place	det
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hastened	obl
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 place	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 day	punct
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 day	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 place	conj
18	before	before	ADV	_	17 day	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 found	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 found	aux
22	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 hastened	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 feeding	det
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 feeding	amod
25	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 feeding	compound
26	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 taken	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 taken	cc
29	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	33 taken	advmod
30	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 of	fixed
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 taken	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 taken	aux
33	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 hastened	parataxis
34	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 taken	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 go	mark
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 taken	advcl
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 direction	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 direction	det
39	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 direction	amod
40	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 go	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the prince			awake property	tree rules
2	hasten	past	doe		the place and the day	soon property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination
3	find	past · perfect	doe	the white doe feeding			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeding=Topic
4	take	past · perfect	longing	care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
5	go	to-infinitive	longing not said here		the opposite direction		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=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 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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