The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 29

In the morning when he went to the sea-shore the Princesses were out of the earth as far as their waists.

Who acts: flask, Princesses · What happens: go, be · To what, where: sea shore, earth

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flask, Princesses), 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 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 went	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 shore	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shore	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shore	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 sea	punct
11	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princesses	det
13	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 earth	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 earth	cop
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 earth	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 earth	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 earth	det
18	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shore	conj
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 far	advmod
20	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 earth	advmod
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 waists	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 waists	nmod:poss
23	waists	waist	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 far	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	flask			the sea shore and the earth	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial_Location
2	is	past	the Princesses			the earth		far property	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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