The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 115

Here he stopped and said: “From a crab into a man, from a water-lily into a maiden,” and to his delight found himself once more a prince, and the maiden was by his side.

Who acts: prince, maiden · What happens: stop, say, find, be, delight · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, maiden), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stopped	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	conj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 crab	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 crab	punct
8	From	from	ADP	_	10 crab	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 crab	det
10	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 man	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crab	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lily	punct
15	from	from	ADP	_	19 lily	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lily	det
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lily	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 water	punct
19	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crab	appos
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 maiden	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 maiden	det
22	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lily	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lily	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 crab	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 found	cc
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 delight	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 delight	nmod:poss
28	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 found	obl
29	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	conj
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 found	obj
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 more	advmod
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 found	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 prince	det
34	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 more	nsubj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 side	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 side	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 maiden	det
38	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 side	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 side	cop
40	by	by	ADP	_	42 side	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 side	nmod:poss
42	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	prince		here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	prince not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	find	past	prince not said here	prince		to prince's delight	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
4	is	past	the maiden			by prince's side	tree rules
5	delight		prince				nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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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