The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 37

By this time the daylight had begun to appear, and the Princess, looking at her conductor, saw that he had tears in his eyes and seemed too sad to speak.

Who acts: daylight, Princess, king · What happens: begin, appear, look, see, have, seem · To what, where: tears, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daylight, Princess, 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 begun	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 daylight	det
5	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 begun	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 begun	aux
7	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 appear	mark
9	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 begun	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princess	det
13	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 saw	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looking	punct
15	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 Princess	acl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 conductor	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 conductor	nmod:poss
18	conductor	conductor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Princess	punct
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 begun	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 saw	ccomp
24	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 had	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 eyes	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 eyes	nmod:poss
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 had	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seemed	cc
29	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 saw	conj
30	too	too	ADV	_	31 sad	advmod
31	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 seemed	xcomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 speak	mark
33	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 sad	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 begun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past · perfect	the daylight			time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	appear	to-infinitive	the daylight not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	gerund	the Princess not said here				at daylight's conductor	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at conductor=Theme
4	see	past	the Princess					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	have	past	king	tears	king's eyes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient
6	seem	past	the Princess not said here				sad property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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