The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 23
Meanwhile the day was breaking, and the King and Queen and all the courtiers began to wake up and rub their eyes, and think it was time to finish the preparations for the wedding.
Who acts: day, King, case · What happens: break, begin, wake up, rub, think, be · To what, where: eyes, time, preparations · 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 (day, King, case), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 breaking | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 breaking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 breaking | aux |
| 5 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 began | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Queen | cc |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 courtiers | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 courtiers | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 courtiers | det |
| 15 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 King | conj |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 breaking | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wake | mark |
| 18 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 wake | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rub | cc |
| 21 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wake | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rub | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 think | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 think | cc |
| 26 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wake | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 time | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 time | cop |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 think | ccomp |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 finish | mark |
| 31 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 time | acl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 preparations | det |
| 33 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 finish | obj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 wedding | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 wedding | det |
| 36 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 preparations | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 breaking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · progressive | the day | meanwhile property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the King and Queen and all courtiers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | wake up | to-infinitive | the King and Queen and all courtiers not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | rub | infinitive | the King and Queen and all courtiers not said here | courtiers's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | infinitive | the King and Queen and all courtiers not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | case | time | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | finish | to-infinitive | the King and Queen and all courtiers not said here | the preparations | for the wedding | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality preparation=Eventuality |
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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