The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 15

In the meantime Prince Peerless had discovered the Princess’s absence, and was lamenting over it by the river’s brim, when he suddenly became aware of the presence of a little old woman.

Who acts: Prince, Princess · What happens: discover, lament, become, absent · To what, where: Prince, meantime, better

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 discovered	obl
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 discovered	nsubj:pass
5	Peerless	Peerless	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Prince	flat
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 discovered	aux
7	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 absence	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Princess	case
11	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 discovered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lamenting	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lamenting	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lamenting	aux
15	lamenting	lament	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 discovered	advcl
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lamenting	obl
18	by	by	ADP	_	22 brim	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 river	det
20	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brim	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 river	case
22	brim	brim	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lamenting	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 became	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 became	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 became	nsubj
26	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	27 became	advmod
27	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lamenting	conj
28	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 became	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 presence	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 presence	det
31	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 aware	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	36 woman	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 woman	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 woman	amod
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 woman	amod
36	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 presence	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	discover	past · perfect · passive		Prince	the meantime		tree rules
2	lament	past · progressive			better = good	by the river's brim	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	become	past	Prince			aware, suddenly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	absent		the Princess				nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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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