The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 19

The Prince did not notice for some days that there was anything new in the room, but at last he perceived it, and went up to look at it more closely.

Who acts: Prince, Saphir · What happens: not notice, perceive, go up, look · To what, where: room, last

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (Prince, Saphir), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 notice	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 notice	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 notice	advmod
5	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 days	det
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 notice	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 was	nsubj
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 was	expl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 days	acl:relcl
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 was	nsubj
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 anything	amod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 room	det
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 new	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 perceived	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 perceived	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 perceived	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 perceived	nsubj
22	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 notice	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 perceived	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 went	cc
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 notice	parataxis
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 went	compound:prt
28	to	to	PART	_	29 look	mark
29	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 went	advcl
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 look	obl
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 closely	advmod
33	closely	closely	ADV	_	29 look	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 notice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	past · do-support	the Prince			day		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	perceive	past	Saphir	room	last			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	go up	past						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	look	to-infinitive					at room; closely property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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