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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 89

But when the princess from her window saw that her betrothed was not among the attendants riding behind her father, her heart sank, for she knew that some evil must have befallen him, and she feared the Red Knight.

Who acts: princess, attendants, heart · What happens: see, betroth, not be, ride, sink, know · To what, where: father, evil, Red Knight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, attendants, heart), 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

ccadvmoddetnsubjcasenmod:possnmodmarknsubjccompcopadvmodcasedetobjaclcasenmod:possoblpunctnmod:possnsubjacl:relclpunctmarknsubjconjmarkdetnsubj:passauxauxccompobjpunctccnsubjconjdetflatobjpunctrootButCCONJwhenADVtheDETprincessNOUNfromADPherPRONwindowNOUNsawVERBthatSCONJherPRONbetrothedVERBwasAUXnotPARTamongADPtheDETattendantsNOUNridingVERBbehindADPherPRONfatherNOUN,PUNCTherPRONheartNOUNsankVERB,PUNCTforSCONJshePRONknewVERBthatSCONJsomeDETevilNOUNmustAUXhaveAUXbefallenVERBhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJshePRONfearedVERBtheDETRedPROPNKnightPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_8 sawcc
2whenwhenADVPronType=Int8 sawadvmod
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 princessdet
4princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing8 sawnsubj
5fromfromADP_7 windowcase
6herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 windownmod:poss
7windowwindowNOUNNumber=Sing4 princessnmod
8sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9thatthatSCONJ_11 betrothedmark
10hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 betrothednsubj
11betrothedbetrothVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 sawccomp
12wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 attendantscop
13notnotPARTPolarity=Neg16 attendantsadvmod
14amongamongADP_16 attendantscase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 attendantsdet
16attendantsattendantNOUNNumber=Plur11 betrothedobj
17ridingrideVERBVerbForm=Ger16 attendantsacl
18behindbehindADP_20 fathercase
19herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 fathernmod:poss
20fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing17 ridingobl
21,,PUNCT_24 sankpunct
22herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 heartnmod:poss
23heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing24 sanknsubj
24sanksinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 fatheracl:relcl
25,,PUNCT_28 knewpunct
26forforSCONJ_28 knewmark
27sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 knewnsubj
28knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 sankconj
29thatthatSCONJ_34 befallenmark
30somesomeDETPronType=Ind31 evildet
31evilevilNOUNNumber=Sing34 befallennsubj:pass
32mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin34 befallenaux
33havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf34 befallenaux
34befallenbefallVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass28 knewccomp
35himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 befallenobj
36,,PUNCT_39 fearedpunct
37andandCCONJ_39 fearedcc
38sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs39 fearednsubj
39fearedfearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 sawconj
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 Knightdet
41RedRedPROPNNumber=Sing42 Knightflat
42KnightKnightPROPNNumber=Sing39 fearedobj
43..PUNCT_8 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastthe princess from princess's windowvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2betrothpastprincessvn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3not ispastamong the attendantstree rules
4ridegerundthe attendants not said herebehind princess's fathervn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5sinkpastprincess's heartprincess's father not said herevn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent father=Patient
6knowpastheartvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7befallmust · perfect · passivesome eviltree rules
8fearpastheartthe Red Knightvn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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