The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 126

That day there was a branch of the trees in her bouquet.

Who acts: day · What happens: be · To what, where: branch

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 (day), 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 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 branch	nsubj
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 branch	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 branch	det
6	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 branch	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 bouquet	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bouquet	nmod:poss
12	bouquet	bouquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trees	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 branch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that day	a branch				of the trees in Lina's bouquet	tree rules

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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