The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 16

Here they got into a little boat in which the poor old boatman was sleeping, and when he woke up and saw the lovely Princess, with all her diamonds and her spiders’—web scarf, he did not know what to think, and obeyed her instantly when she commanded him to set out.

Who acts: dagger, poor old boatman, boatman, Princess · What happens: get, sleep, wake up, see, not know, think · To what, where: little boat, lovely Princess, Princess, boatman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (dagger, poor old boatman, boatman, 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 boat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boat	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boat	amod
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sleeping	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boatman	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boatman	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boatman	amod
13	boatman	boatman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sleeping	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sleeping	aux
15	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 boat	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 woke	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 woke	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 woke	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 woke	nsubj
20	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	parataxis
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 woke	compound:prt
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saw	cc
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 woke	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Princess	det
25	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Princess	amod
26	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 saw	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 diamonds	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 diamonds	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 diamonds	det:predet
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 diamonds	nmod:poss
31	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 saw	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 spiders	cc
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 spiders	nmod:poss
34	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 diamonds	conj
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 spiders	punct
36	—	-	PUNCT	_	38 scarf	punct
37	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 scarf	compound
38	scarf	scarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 diamonds	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 know	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 know	nsubj
41	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 know	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 know	advmod
43	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 scarf	conj
44	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	46 think	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 think	mark
46	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 know	ccomp
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 obeyed	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 obeyed	cc
49	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	parataxis
50	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 obeyed	obj
51	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	49 obeyed	advmod
52	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	54 commanded	advmod
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 commanded	nsubj
54	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 obeyed	conj
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 commanded	obj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 set	mark
57	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 commanded	advcl
58	out	out	ADP	_	57 set	compound:prt
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	dagger		a little boat; here		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination
2	sleep	past · progressive	the poor old boatman		a little boat		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
3	wake up	past	boatman				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	see	past	boatman not said here	the lovely Princess		with Princess's diamonds and Princess's spiders and web scarf	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
5	not know	past · do-support	boatman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	think speech: other	to-infinitive					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
7	obey	past		Princess		instantly property	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
8	command	past	Princess	boatman			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme
9	set out	to-infinitive	Princess not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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