The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 7

You may imagine that it was not long before he went to see the Princess, and puss, as usual, marched in before him, arching his back.

Who acts: You, tail, king · What happens: imagine, not be, go, see, march, arch · To what, where: puss, Princess, back

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 (You, tail, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 imagine	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	aux
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 long	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 long	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 long	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 went	advmod
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 went	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 went	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 puss	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 puss	cc
18	puss	puss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 imagine	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 usual	punct
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 usual	case
21	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 imagine	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 marched	punct
23	marched	march	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 usual	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 him	case
25	before	before	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 marched	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 arching	punct
28	arching	arch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 marched	advcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 back	nmod:poss
30	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 arching	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	imagine	may	You	puss		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	not is	past	tail		long property	tree rules
3	go	past	king			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	to-infinitive	king not said here	the Princess		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
5	march	participle	You not said here		in king	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in he=Trajectory
6	arch	gerund	You not said here	king's back		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=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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