The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 66
And when the morning dawned, it was no cat that lay upon the bed, but a beautiful princess.
Who acts: marriage, cat · What happens: dawn, be, lie · To what, where: beautiful princess, cat, bed
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, cat), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dawned | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 dawned | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dawned | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cat | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cat | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cat | cop |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 cat | det |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dawned | appos |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cat | acl:relcl |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bed | det |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 princess | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 princess | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 princess | amod |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dawned | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dawned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | participle | a beautiful princess | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | marriage | no cat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | no cat | the bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bed=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 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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