The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 16

The same thing happened there; but when the giant was snoring, the princess wakened up the prince, and they saddled two steeds in the stables and rode into the field on them.

Who acts: same thing, giant, princess, quarters · What happens: happen, snore, waken up, saddle, ride · To what, where: princess, prince, two steeds, stables, field

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same thing, giant, princess, quarters), 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	3 thing	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 happened	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 snoring	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 snoring	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 snoring	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 snoring	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 snoring	aux
12	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 princess	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 snoring	obl
16	wakened	waken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 princess	acl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 wakened	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 prince	det
19	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wakened	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saddled	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saddled	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saddled	nsubj
23	saddled	saddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	parataxis
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 steeds	nummod
25	steeds	steed	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 saddled	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 stables	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stables	det
28	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 saddled	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 rode	cc
30	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saddled	conj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 field	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 field	det
33	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rode	obl
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 rode	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	the same thing		there		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	snore	past · progressive	the giant	the princess			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	waken up	participle	the princess not said here	the prince			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent prince=Patient
4	saddle	past	quarters = quarter	two steeds	the stables		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent steed=Destination
5	ride	past	quarters = quarter not said here		the field	on quarters = quarter	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into field=Trajectory

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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