The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 69

And so saying he disappeared, and the Princess, without knowing how she got there, found herself walking under shady trees by a clear river.

Who acts: Sunbeam, Princess · What happens: say, disappear, know, get, find, walk · To what, where: Princess, shady trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sunbeam, Princess), 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	_	3 saying	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 saying	advmod
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 disappeared	nsubj
5	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 found	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 found	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knowing	punct
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 knowing	mark
12	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 Princess	acl
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 got	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 knowing	ccomp
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 got	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 disappeared	advcl
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 found	obj
20	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 found	xcomp
21	under	under	ADP	_	23 trees	case
22	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 trees	amod
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 walking	obl
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 river	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 river	det
26	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 river	amod
27	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 walking	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	disappear	past	Sunbeam				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	gerund	the Princess not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	get	past	Princess		there		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	find	past	the Princess	Princess			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme
6	walk	gerund	Princess not said here		shady trees	by a clear river	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Trajectory

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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