The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 68

In the middle of the night she was suddenly awakened, and saw to her surprise a tiny, ugly old woman seated by her bedside, who said to her:

Who acts: bedside, Queen · What happens: awaken, see, seat, say, surprise · To what, where: Queen, middle, tiny ugly old woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bedside, Queen), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 awakened	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 awakened	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 awakened	aux:pass
9	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	10 awakened	advmod
10	awakened	awaken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 awakened	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 surprise	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 surprise	nmod:poss
16	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 woman	det
18	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tiny	punct
20	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 surprise	appos
23	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 woman	acl
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 bedside	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 bedside	nmod:poss
26	bedside	bedside	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seated	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 bedside	acl:relcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	obl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 awakened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	awaken	past · passive		Queen		the middle of the night	suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	see	past					to Queen's surprise	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	seat	participle		a tiny ugly old woman not said here			by Queen's bedside	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
4	say speech: assert	past	Queen's bedside		Queen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
5	surprise		Queen					nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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