The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 74

That very night, however, while he was asleep, the princess noticed something strange in one of the corners of the room.

Who acts: night, princess · What happens: be, notice · To what, where: something

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 night	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 night	advmod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asleep	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	10 asleep	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 asleep	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asleep	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asleep	cop
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 noticed	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 noticed	nsubj
14	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asleep	conj
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 noticed	obj
16	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 something	amod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 one	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 noticed	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 corners	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 corners	det
21	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 room	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 room	det
24	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 corners	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that night					asleep, however property	tree rules
2	notice	past	the princess	something				in one of the corners of the room	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=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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