The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 10

At last, however, he was lucky enough to come upon puss fast asleep and with his tail conveniently spread out.

Who acts: king · What happens: be, come, spread out · To what, where: puss, last

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 spread	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 lucky	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lucky	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lucky	cop
8	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 spread	advcl
9	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 lucky	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 come	mark
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lucky	xcomp
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 puss	case
13	puss	puss	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
14	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 asleep	advmod
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 puss	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tail	cc
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 tail	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tail	nmod:poss
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 puss	conj
20	conveniently	conveniently	ADV	_	21 spread	advmod
21	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 spread	compound:prt
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	king		enough, however, lucky property	tree rules
2	come	to-infinitive	king not said here	puss and king's tail		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon puss=Location
3	spread out	present		last	conveniently property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location

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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