The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 49

The Prince went to bed in silence, as he did not quite know how to begin a conversation with the hands that waited on him, and in the morning he was awakened by a noise and confusion outside of his window, and the hands came and quickly dressed him in hunting costume.

Who acts: Prince, sight, hands, noise · What happens: go, not know, begin, wait, awaken, come · To what, where: silence, conversation, sight, hunting costume · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, sight, hands, noise), 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 bed	case
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 silence	case
7	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 know	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 know	advmod
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 know	advmod
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	parataxis
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 begin	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 begin	mark
17	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 know	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 conversation	det
19	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begin	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 hands	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hands	det
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 begin	obl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 waited	nsubj
24	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hands	acl:relcl
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 waited	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 awakened	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 awakened	cc
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 morning	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 morning	det
31	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 awakened	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 awakened	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 awakened	aux:pass
34	awakened	awaken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	parataxis
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 noise	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 noise	det
37	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 awakened	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 confusion	cc
39	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 noise	conj
40	outside	outside	ADP	_	43 window	case
41	of	of	ADP	_	40 outside	fixed
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 window	nmod:poss
43	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 confusion	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 came	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 came	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 hands	det
47	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 came	nsubj
48	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 dressed	cc
50	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	51 dressed	advmod
51	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 came	conj
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 dressed	obj
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 costume	case
54	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 costume	compound
55	costume	costume	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 dressed	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the Prince		silence		to bed	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	not know	past · do-support	sight					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	begin	to-infinitive		a conversation			with the hands	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent conversation=Eventuality with hand=Subeventuality
4	wait	past	the hands				on sight	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location
5	awaken	past · passive	a noise and confusion outside sight's window	sight		morning		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
6	come	past	the hands					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	dress	past	the hands not said here	sight	hunting costume		quickly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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