The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 41

The King’s son, then on his return from hunting, met her, and seeing her so very pretty, asked her what she did there alone and why she cried.

Who acts: son, seeing, mother · What happens: meet, see, ask, do, cry, return · To what, where: mother, hunting · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, seeing, mother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 King	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 met	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 return	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 return	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 return	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 return	nmod:poss
9	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	appos
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 hunting	case
11	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 return	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 son	punct
13	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 met	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 asked	cc
17	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 asked	csubj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seeing	obj
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 pretty	advmod
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 pretty	advmod
21	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	17 seeing	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seeing	punct
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 met	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	iobj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 did	obj
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 did	nsubj
27	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 asked	ccomp
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 did	advmod
29	alone	alone	ADV	_	27 did	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cried	cc
31	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	33 cried	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 cried	nsubj
33	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 did	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	the King's son	mother				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
2	see	gerund		mother			pretty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	ask speech: ask	past	seeing		mother			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do	past	mother			there	alone property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	cry speech: express	past	mother					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	return		son			hunting		nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent from=place

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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