The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 148

He flew on and on for several days, till he came to a great desert, where he saw a cavern, and, to his delight, there sat Celia, sharing the simple breakfast of an old hermit.

Who acts: prince · What happens: fly, come, see, sit, share, delight · To what, where: great desert, cavern, Celia, simple breakfast

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 on	cc
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 on	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 days	amod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flew	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 desert	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 desert	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 desert	amod
16	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 saw	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 desert	acl:relcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cavern	det
22	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sat	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sat	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 and	punct
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 delight	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 delight	nmod:poss
28	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sat	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 delight	punct
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 sat	expl
31	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
32	Celia	Celia	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 sat	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sharing	punct
34	sharing	share	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 sat	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 breakfast	det
36	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 breakfast	amod
37	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sharing	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 hermit	case
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 hermit	det
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 hermit	amod
41	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 breakfast	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	prince			day		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	prince		a great desert			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to desert=Initial_Location
3	see	past	prince	a cavern				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cavern=Stimulus
4	sit	past	prince not said here	Celia	there		to prince's delight	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location celia=Theme
5	share	gerund	prince not said here	the simple breakfast of a old hermit				tree rules
6	delight		prince					nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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