The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 34

So it happened that he came presently to a great plain, across which he rode all day long without seeing a single house, and horse and rider were terribly hungry, when, as the night fell, the Prince caught sight of a light, which seemed to shine from a cavern.

Who acts: it, Prince, horse, night, light · What happens: happen, come, ride, see, be, fall · To what, where: great plain, single house, sight, cavern, light

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 (it, Prince, horse, night), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	advcl
7	presently	presently	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 plain	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 plain	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plain	amod
11	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rode	punct
13	across	across	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 rode	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rode	nsubj
16	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rode	obl:unmarked
19	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 rode	advmod
20	without	without	SCONJ	_	21 seeing	mark
21	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 rode	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 house	det
23	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 house	amod
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seeing	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hungry	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hungry	cc
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hungry	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rider	cc
29	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 horse	conj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 hungry	cop
31	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	32 hungry	advmod
32	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 happened	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 when	punct
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 hungry	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 fell	punct
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 fell	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 night	det
38	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fell	nsubj
39	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	parataxis
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 caught	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Prince	det
42	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 caught	nsubj
43	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 fell	conj
44	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 caught	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 light	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 light	det
47	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sight	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 seemed	punct
49	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 seemed	nsubj
50	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 light	acl:relcl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 shine	mark
52	shine	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 seemed	xcomp
53	from	from	ADP	_	55 cavern	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 cavern	det
55	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 shine	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	Prince		a great plain		presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to plain=Initial_Location
3	ride	past	Prince			day	long property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across which=Trajectory
4	see	gerund	Prince not said here	a single house				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus
5	is	past	horse and rider				hungry, terribly property	tree rules
6	fall	past	the night					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	catch	past	the Prince	sight of a light				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
8	seem	past	a light					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
9	shine	to-infinitive	a light not said here		a cavern			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	sight			a light				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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