The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 100

He flung open the window, and sliding down the vine which climbed up the wall, found himself in the garden just as the sun was beginning to rise, and it was time for him to set to his work.

Who acts: Michael, vine, sun · What happens: fling, open, slide, climb up, find, begin · To what, where: window, vine, wall, Michael, garden, time

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael, vine, sun), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flung	nsubj
2	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 flung	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 window	det
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 open	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sliding	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sliding	cc
8	sliding	slide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 flung	advcl
9	down	down	ADP	_	11 vine	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 vine	det
11	vine	vine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sliding	obl
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 climbed	nsubj
13	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 vine	acl:relcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 climbed	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wall	det
16	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 climbed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flung	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 found	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 garden	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 garden	det
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 found	obl
23	just	just	ADV	_	28 beginning	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 beginning	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sun	det
26	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 beginning	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 beginning	aux
28	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 found	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 rise	mark
30	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 beginning	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 time	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 time	cc
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 time	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 time	cop
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flung	obl:unmarked
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 time	nmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 set	mark
39	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 time	acl
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 work	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 work	nmod:poss
42	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 set	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fling	past	Michael				tree rules
2	open	infinitive	Michael not said here	the window			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme
3	slide	gerund	Michael not said here		the vine		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down vine=Trajectory
4	climb up	past	the vine	the wall			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wall=Theme
5	find	past	Michael not said here	Michael	the garden		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
6	begin	past · progressive	the sun				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	rise	to-infinitive	the sun not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	past	sun	time		for Michael	tree rules
9	set	to-infinitive	Michael not said here			to Michael's work	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
10	work		Michael				nom work «act intransitive»: 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 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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