The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 13

The Prince burst into a shout of joy when he suddenly perceived Militza in the centre of a group of girls who were weaving wreaths of flowers with which to deck their mistress.

Who acts: Prince, girls · What happens: burst, perceive, weave, deck, shout · To what, where: shout, Militza, centre, wreaths, mistress, joy

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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, girls), 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	3 burst	nsubj
3	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 shout	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shout	det
6	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burst	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 joy	case
8	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shout	nmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 perceived	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 perceived	nsubj
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 perceived	advmod
12	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burst	advcl
13	Militza	Militza	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 perceived	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 centre	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 centre	det
16	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perceived	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 group	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 group	det
19	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 centre	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 girls	case
21	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 group	nmod
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 weaving	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 weaving	aux
24	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 girls	acl:relcl
25	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 weaving	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 flowers	case
27	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 wreaths	nmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 deck	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 deck	mark
31	deck	deck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 flowers	acl:relcl
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mistress	nmod:poss
33	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 deck	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	burst	past	the Prince			a shout of joy		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	perceive	past	Prince	Militza		the centre of a group of girls	suddenly property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer militza=Stimulus
3	weave	past · progressive	girls	wreaths of flowers				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wreath=Product
4	deck	to-infinitive	girls not said here		flowers's mistress		with flowers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent mistress=Destination with which=Theme
5	shout			joy				nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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