The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 26

Two days afterward, when the Prince had gone to bed, the Fairy suddenly appeared to him and said:

Who acts: Prince, Fairy · What happens: go, appear, say · To what, where: bed, prince · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Fairy), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 appeared	obl:unmarked
3	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	2 days	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 gone	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Prince	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 gone	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 days	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 bed	case
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Fairy	det
14	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 appeared	nsubj
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	16 appeared	advmod
16	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 appeared	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 appeared	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	the Prince		bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	appear	past	the Fairy	prince		day	suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Fairy not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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