The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 149

Then he came back, and, passing before the Princess’s window, he began to cry out:

Who acts: man · What happens: come back, pass, begin, cry out · To what, where: window

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 passing	punct
8	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 began	advcl
9	before	before	ADP	_	13 window	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 window	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 Princess	case
13	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 passing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 passing	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 began	nsubj
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 cry	mark
18	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 cry	compound:prt
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	come back	past	man		then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	gerund	man not said here	the Princess's window		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before window=Location
3	begin	past	man			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry out speech: express	to-infinitive	man not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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