The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 31

On the bank of the great river he halted, and the princess rushed up to where the prince was standing by the pit he had digged in the dry sand, with a huge water pot beside it.

Who acts: sun, princess, prince · What happens: halt, rush up, stand, digg · To what, where: bank, pit, dry sand

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, princess, prince), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 bank	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bank	det
3	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 halted	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 river	amod
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bank	nmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 halted	nsubj
9	halted	halt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rushed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rushed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rushed	nsubj
14	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 halted	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 rushed	compound:prt
16	to	to	SCONJ	_	21 standing	mark
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 standing	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 prince	det
19	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 standing	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 standing	aux
21	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 rushed	advcl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 pit	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pit	det
24	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 standing	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 digged	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 digged	aux
27	digged	digg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 pit	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 sand	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sand	det
30	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sand	amod
31	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 digged	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 pot	punct
33	with	with	ADP	_	37 pot	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 pot	det
35	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 pot	amod
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pot	compound
37	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 standing	obl
38	beside	beside	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 pot	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 halted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	halt	past	sun		the bank of the great river		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	rush up	past	the princess				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand	past · progressive	the prince			by the pit; with a huge water pot beside pot	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by pit=Location
4	digg	past · perfect	sun	the pit not said here	the dry sand		tree rules

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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