The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 6

That night, when he was alone in his room, a beautiful lady suddenly appeared before him; her long dress was as white as snow, and she had a crown of white roses upon her head.

Who acts: bunny, long dress, rabbit · What happens: be, appear, have, crown · To what, where: room, crown, white roses

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 (bunny, long dress, rabbit), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 appeared	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 alone	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 alone	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 alone	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 alone	cop
7	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 night	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 room	nmod:poss
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 alone	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lady	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lady	det
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lady	amod
14	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 night	conj
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	16 appeared	advmod
16	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 appeared	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 white	punct
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 dress	nmod:poss
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dress	amod
22	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 white	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 white	cop
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 white	advmod
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 appeared	conj
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 snow	case
27	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 white	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 had	cc
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 appeared	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 crown	det
33	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 roses	case
35	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 roses	amod
36	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 crown	nmod
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 head	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 head	nmod:poss
39	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	bunny		bunny's room		alone property	tree rules
2	appear	past				before bunny; night	suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location
3	is	past	rabbit's long dress				as snow; white property	tree rules
4	have	past	rabbit	a crown of white roses			upon rabbit's head	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient
5	crown			white roses				nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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