The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 89

One day, however, as I sat at my window I saw a handsome young prince, who seemed to have been hunting in the forest which surrounded my prison, and who was standing and looking up at me.

Who acts: I, handsome young prince · What happens: sit, see, seem, hunt, surround, stand · To what, where: window, handsome young prince, forest

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 (I, handsome young prince), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 however	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	13 saw	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 sat	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saw	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 window	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 window	nmod:poss
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 prince	det
15	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 prince	amod
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 prince	amod
17	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 seemed	nsubj
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 prince	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	24 hunting	mark
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 hunting	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 hunting	aux
24	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 seemed	xcomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 forest	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 forest	det
27	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hunting	obl
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 surrounded	nsubj:pass
29	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 forest	acl
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 prison	nmod:poss
31	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 surrounded	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 standing	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 standing	cc
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 standing	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 standing	aux
36	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 saw	advcl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 looking	cc
38	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 standing	conj
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 looking	compound:prt
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 me	case
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 looking	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	I		my window		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
2	see	past	I	a handsome young prince		however property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus
3	seem	past	a handsome young prince				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	hunt	to-infinitive · perfect · progressive	a handsome young prince not said here		the forest		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location
5	surround	participle · passive		the forest			tree rules
6	stand	past · progressive					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	look up	gerund				at me	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme

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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