The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 90

She was asleep in a little basket on a white satin cushion, but she very soon started up when she heard the Prince, and was overjoyed at seeing him once more.

Who acts: place · What happens: be, start up, hear, overjoy, see · To what, where: little basket, Prince, horse

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 (place), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asleep	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	cop
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 basket	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 basket	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 basket	amod
7	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asleep	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 cushion	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cushion	det
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cushion	amod
11	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cushion	compound
12	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 basket	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 started	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 started	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 started	nsubj
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 soon	advmod
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 started	advmod
18	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	parataxis
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 started	compound:prt
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 heard	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 started	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Prince	det
24	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 overjoyed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 overjoyed	cc
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 overjoyed	aux:pass
28	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 started	conj
29	at	at	SCONJ	_	30 seeing	mark
30	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 overjoyed	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 seeing	obj
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	33 more	advmod
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 overjoyed	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	place		a little basket on a white satin cushion	asleep property	tree rules
2	start up	past	place			soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	hear	past	place	the Prince			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus
4	overjoy	past · passive	place not said here				tree rules
5	see	gerund	place not said here	horse			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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