The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 42

‘Well,’ said she, ‘as I am unable to find you, you must show yourself; ‘whereupon the youth immediately appeared standing there on the stable floor.

Who acts: Princess, I, you, youth · What happens: say, be, find, show, appear, stand · To what, where: you, yourself, stable floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (Princess, I, you, youth), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 unable	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 unable	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 unable	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 unable	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 unable	cop
12	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 find	mark
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 unable	xcomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 find	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 show	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 show	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 show	aux
19	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 unable	parataxis
20	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 show	iobj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 appeared	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 appeared	punct
23	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	27 appeared	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 youth	det
25	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 appeared	nsubj
26	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	27 appeared	advmod
27	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
28	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 appeared	advcl
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 standing	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 floor	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 floor	det
32	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 floor	amod
33	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 standing	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Princess					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I				unable property	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	I not said here	you				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic
4	show	must	you		yourself			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient
5	appear	past	the youth				immediately, whereupon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stand	gerund	the youth not said here			the stable floor; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location

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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