The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 14

But the princess felt that something strange was about her, though she knew not what, and returned quickly to the palace, where the young man at once resumed his own shape.

Who acts: princess, something, young man · What happens: feel, be, not know, return, resume · To what, where: own shape

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, something, young man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 felt	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 her	mark
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 her	nsubj
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 her	cop
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knew	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 knew	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 knew	nsubj
14	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 felt	conj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 knew	advmod
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 knew	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 returned	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 returned	cc
19	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 felt	conj
20	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	19 returned	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 palace	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 palace	det
23	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 returned	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 resumed	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 resumed	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 resumed	nsubj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 once	case
30	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 resumed	obl
31	resumed	resume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 palace	acl:relcl
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 shape	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 shape	amod
34	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 resumed	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the princess			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	something		about mermaid	tree rules
3	not know	past	princess			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	return	past	the princess not said here		to the palace result; quickly property	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result
5	resume	past	the young man	man's own shape		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality

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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