The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 46

Michael thanked the lady in the golden dress, and when he woke he found the two laurel bushes beside him.

Who acts: Michael · What happens: thank, wake, find · To what, where: lady, golden dress, two laurel bushes

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), 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	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thanked	nsubj
2	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thanked	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 dress	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dress	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dress	amod
8	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thanked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 woke	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 woke	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 woke	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 woke	nsubj
13	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thanked	parataxis
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 found	nsubj
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 woke	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bushes	det
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 bushes	nummod
18	laurel	laurel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bushes	compound
19	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 found	obj
20	beside	beside	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bushes	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	Michael		the lady	the golden dress		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme
2	wake	past	Michael					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	find	past	Michael	the two laurel bushes			beside Gazer	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bush=Topic

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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