The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 25

Then she saw a handsome youth standing beside her; who knelt down at her feet and kissed the little weary white hands.

Who acts: Princess, handsome youth · What happens: see, stand, kneel down, kiss · To what, where: handsome youth, feet, little weary white hands

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, handsome 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 saw	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 youth	det
5	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 youth	amod
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
7	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 youth	acl
8	beside	beside	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 standing	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 knelt	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 knelt	nsubj
12	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 knelt	compound:prt
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 feet	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 feet	nmod:poss
16	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 knelt	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 kissed	cc
18	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hands	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hands	amod
21	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hands	amod
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hands	amod
23	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kissed	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Princess	a handsome youth		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus
2	stand	gerund	a handsome youth not said here				beside Princess	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location
3	kneel down	past			Princess's feet			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
4	kiss	past	Princess not said here	the little weary white hands				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent

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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