The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 202
When the day broke she and Frisk were equally astonished at finding themselves alone upon the sea, with no boat and no one to help them.
Who acts: day, Frisk · What happens: break, be, find, help · To what, where: two, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, Frisk), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 broke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 broke | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 astonished | cc |
| 7 | Frisk | Frisk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 astonished | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 astonished | cop |
| 9 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 10 astonished | advmod |
| 10 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 broke | conj |
| 11 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 12 finding | mark |
| 12 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 astonished | advcl |
| 13 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 finding | obj |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 finding | advmod |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 finding | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 boat | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 boat | case |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 boat | det |
| 21 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 one | cc |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 boat | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 help | mark |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 broke | advcl |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 help | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | the day | two | with no boat and no one | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with boat=Instrument | |||
| 2 | is | past | Frisk | astonished, equally property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | gerund | Frisk not said here | Princess | upon the sea; alone property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | |||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | the day not said here | Princess | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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