The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 57

One day, when the Prince was walking about, he saw a young girl who was so very pretty that he made up his mind at once that he would marry her.

Who acts: Prince, young girl · What happens: walk, see, be, make up, marry, mind · To what, where: young girl, mind, girl

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, young girl), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 walking	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 walking	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 walking	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 walking	aux
8	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	conj
9	about	about	ADV	_	8 walking	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 girl	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 girl	amod
15	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 pretty	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 pretty	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 pretty	advmod
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 pretty	advmod
20	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	15 girl	acl:relcl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 made	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	nsubj
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	advcl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 made	compound:prt
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mind	nmod:poss
26	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 once	case
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 made	obl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 marry	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 marry	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 marry	aux
32	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 once	advcl
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 marry	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	the Prince			about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	prince	a young girl	day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus
3	is	past	a young girl			pretty property	tree rules
4	make up	past	prince	prince's mind			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
5	marry	would	prince	girl			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
6	mind		prince				nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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