The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 113

Next morning she sat down beneath the walls of the castle to play with the golden apple, and the first person she saw was the maiden with the long nose, who was to have the Prince.

Who acts: sea, first person, long nose · What happens: sit down, play, see, be, have · To what, where: walls, first person, Prince

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, first person, long nose), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	8 walls	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 walls	det
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sat	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 castle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 castle	det
11	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walls	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 play	mark
13	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sat	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 apple	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 apple	det
16	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 apple	amod
17	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 play	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 maiden	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 maiden	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 person	det
21	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 person	amod
22	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 maiden	nsubj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 person	acl:relcl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 maiden	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 maiden	det
27	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sat	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 nose	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 nose	det
30	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 nose	amod
31	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 maiden	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 have	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 have	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 have	aux
35	to	to	PART	_	36 have	mark
36	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 nose	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Prince	det
38	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 have	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	sea		the walls of the castle	morning		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath wall=Location
2	play	to-infinitive	sea not said here				with the golden apple	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with apple=Theme
3	see	past	sea	the first person not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus
4	is	past	the first person				with the long nose; maiden property	tree rules
5	have	past	the long nose	the Prince				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=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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