The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 23

The King smiled, and went to draw back the curtains himself, but at a touch from the Princess the crystal shivered into a thousand splinters, and there she stood in all her beauty; her fair hair floated over her shoulders and was crowned with flowers, and her softly falling robe was of the purest white.

Who acts: King, crystal, falling robe · What happens: smile, go, draw back, shiver, stand, float · To what, where: curtains, fair hair, beauty, shoulders

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, crystal, falling robe), 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 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 smiled	nsubj
3	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smiled	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 draw	mark
8	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	xcomp
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 draw	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 curtains	det
11	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 draw	obj
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 curtains	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shivered	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 shivered	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 touch	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 touch	det
17	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shivered	obl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 Princess	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Princess	det
20	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 touch	nmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 crystal	det
22	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shivered	nsubj
23	shivered	shiver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 smiled	conj
24	into	into	ADP	_	27 splinters	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 thousand	det
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 splinters	nummod
27	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 shivered	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stood	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stood	cc
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 stood	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 stood	nsubj
32	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smiled	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 beauty	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 beauty	det:predet
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 beauty	nmod:poss
36	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stood	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 hair	punct
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hair	nmod:poss
39	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 hair	amod
40	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stood	obl
41	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 hair	acl
42	over	over	ADP	_	44 shoulders	case
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 shoulders	nmod:poss
44	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 floated	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 crowned	cc
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 crowned	aux:pass
47	crowned	crown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 stood	conj
48	with	with	ADP	_	49 flowers	case
49	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 crowned	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 white	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 white	cc
52	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 robe	nmod:poss
53	softly	softly	ADV	_	54 falling	advmod
54	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 robe	amod
55	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 white	nsubj
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 white	cop
57	of	of	ADP	_	60 white	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 white	det
59	purest	pure	ADJ	Degree=Sup	60 white	amod
60	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smiled	parataxis
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	smile	past	the King				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	the King not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	draw back	to-infinitive	the King not said here	the curtains King			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme
4	shiver	participle	the crystal			into thousand splinters; at a touch from the Princess	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at touch=Stimulus
5	stand	past	crystal	crystal's fair hair	crystal's beauty; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in beauty=Location
6	float	participle		crystal's fair hair not said here	crystal's shoulders		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over shoulder=Trajectory
7	crown	past · passive	crystal not said here			with flowers	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with flower=Theme
8	fall	gerund				softly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	past	crystal's falling robe			white property	tree rules

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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