The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 123

In the daytime she sat down once more beneath the windows of the castle, and began to card with her golden carding-comb; and then all happened as it had happened before.

Who acts: princess, it · What happens: sit down, begin, happen · To what, where: daytime, card

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 (princess, it), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 daytime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 daytime	det
3	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 sat	advmod
9	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	11 windows	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 windows	det
11	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 more	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 castle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 castle	det
14	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 windows	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 card	mark
19	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 began	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	25 comb	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 comb	nmod:poss
22	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 comb	amod
23	carding	carding	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 comb	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 carding	punct
25	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 began	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 happened	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 happened	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 happened	advmod
29	all	all	ADV	_	30 happened	advmod
30	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 happened	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 happened	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 happened	aux
34	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 happened	advcl
35	before	before	ADV	_	34 happened	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	princess		the daytime		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in daytime=Location
2	begin	past	princess not said here	card			with princess's golden carding comb	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent card=Eventuality with comb=Subeventuality
3	happen	past	princess not said here			then	all property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	happen	past · perfect	it				before property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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