The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 69

And then the tears rolled slowly down the lovely lady’s cheeks, and Prince Curlicue began to comprehend that she was under an enchantment, and that it was the hand of her lover that he had found.

Who acts: tears, Curlicue, enchantment, prince · What happens: roll, begin, comprehend, be, find · To what, where: cheeks, enchantment, hand

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tears, Curlicue, enchantment, prince), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 rolled	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 rolled	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tears	det
4	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rolled	nsubj
5	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 rolled	advmod
7	down	down	ADP	_	12 cheeks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lady	det
9	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lady	amod
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cheeks	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 lady	case
12	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rolled	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Curlicue	nmod:desc
16	Curlicue	Curlicue	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rolled	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 comprehend	mark
19	comprehend	comprehend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 enchantment	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 enchantment	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 enchantment	cop
23	under	under	ADP	_	25 enchantment	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 enchantment	det
25	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 comprehend	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hand	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hand	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 hand	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hand	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 hand	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hand	det
32	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rolled	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 lover	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 lover	nmod:poss
35	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hand	nmod
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 found	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 found	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 found	aux
39	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 rolled	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	past	the tears		the lovely lady's cheeks	then	slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down cheek=Trajectory
2	begin	past	Curlicue Prince					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	comprehend	to-infinitive	Curlicue Prince not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	Curlicue		a enchantment			tree rules
5	is a	past	enchantment	the hand			of Curlicue's lover	tree rules
6	find	past · perfect	prince					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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