The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 10

So when the soldiers landed they could see nothing, but the Princess touched them one after another with the dagger, and they fell insensible upon the sand, so that at last the Admiral, seeing that there was some enchantment, hastily gave orders for a retreat to be sounded, and got his men back into their boats in great confusion.

Who acts: soldiers, Princess, enchantment · What happens: land, see, touch, fall, be, give · To what, where: nothing, soldiers, last Admiral, orders, men, boats · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (soldiers, Princess, enchantment), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 landed	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 landed	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldiers	det
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 landed	nsubj
5	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 landed	ccomp
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 see	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 touched	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 touched	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princess	det
13	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 touched	nsubj
14	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 landed	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 touched	obj
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 touched	obj
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 another	case
18	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 one	nmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 dagger	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dagger	det
21	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 touched	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fell	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fell	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fell	nsubj
25	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 landed	conj
26	insensible	insensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fell	xcomp
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 sand	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sand	det
29	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 insensible	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 that	punct
31	so	so	SCONJ	_	32 that	case
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 fell	obl
33	at	at	ADP	_	36 Admiral	case
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Admiral	amod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Admiral	det
36	Admiral	Admiral	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 fell	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 seeing	punct
38	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 fell	advcl
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 was	mark
40	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	41 was	expl
41	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 seeing	ccomp
42	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	43 enchantment	det
43	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 was	nsubj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 gave	punct
45	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	46 gave	advmod
46	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 landed	conj
47	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 gave	obj
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 retreat	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 retreat	det
50	retreat	retreat	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 gave	obl
51	to	to	PART	_	53 sounded	mark
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 sounded	aux:pass
53	sounded	sound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 gave	advcl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 got	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 got	cc
56	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 landed	conj
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 men	nmod:poss
58	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 got	obj
59	back	back	ADV	_	56 got	advmod
60	into	into	ADP	_	62 boats	case
61	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 boats	nmod:poss
62	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 got	obl
63	in	in	ADP	_	65 confusion	case
64	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 confusion	amod
65	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 boats	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 landed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	land	past	the soldiers				tree rules
2	see	could	soldiers = soldier	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	touch	past	the Princess	soldiers = soldier		with the dagger	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer one=Result
4	fall	past	Princess		the last Admiral	so that; insensible property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at admiral=Location
5	see	gerund	Princess not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	be	past	some enchantment		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	give	past	the soldiers not said here	orders		for a retreat; hastily property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent order=Theme for retreat=Asset
8	sound	to-infinitive · passive	the soldiers not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»
9	get back	past	the soldiers not said here	enchantment's men	Princess's boats in great confusion		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus

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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