The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 18

The princess was ready first, but scarcely had she slipped over the rim of the pool when down—down—down she sank, and vanished in its depths before her frightened playmates could seize her by so much as a lock of her floating golden hair!

Who acts: princess, frightened playmates · What happens: be, have, slip, sink, vanish, seize · To what, where: rim, depths, princess

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, frightened playmates), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ready	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	cop
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 ready	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
8	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	9 had	advmod
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	parataxis
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 slipped	nsubj
11	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	ccomp
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 rim	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rim	det
14	rim	rim	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slipped	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 pool	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pool	det
17	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rim	nmod
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 down	advmod
19	down	down	ADV	_	11 slipped	advmod
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 down	punct
21	down	down	ADV	_	4 ready	conj
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 sank	punct
23	down	down	ADV	_	25 sank	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sank	nsubj
25	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 vanished	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 vanished	cc
28	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sank	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 depths	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 depths	nmod:poss
31	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 vanished	obl
32	before	before	SCONJ	_	37 seize	mark
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 playmates	nmod:poss
34	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 playmates	amod
35	playmates	playmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 seize	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 seize	aux
37	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 vanished	advcl
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 seize	obj
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 much	case
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 much	advmod
41	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 seize	obl
42	as	as	ADP	_	44 lock	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 lock	det
44	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 much	nmod
45	of	of	ADP	_	49 hair	case
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 hair	nmod:poss
47	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 hair	amod
48	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 hair	amod
49	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lock	nmod
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the princess			first, ready property	tree rules
2	have	past				scarcely property	tree rules
3	slip	past	princess		the rim of the pool	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	sink	past	princess			down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	vanish	past	princess not said here		pool's depths		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	seize	could	princess's frightened playmates	princess		by much as a lock of princess's floating golden hair	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
7	float	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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