The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 83
The Prince did not awake till late in the evening; and when he did, he found, to his horror, that the horses had disappeared.
Who acts: Prince, horses · What happens: do, find, disappear · To what, where: horror
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, horses), 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 awake | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awake | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 awake | advmod |
| 5 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 late | mark |
| 7 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 awake | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 evening | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 evening | det |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 late | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 found | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 did | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 found | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awake | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 horror | punct |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 horror | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 horror | nmod:poss |
| 22 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 disappeared | punct |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 disappeared | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 horses | det |
| 26 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 disappeared | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 disappeared | aux |
| 28 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 found | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | past | Prince | Iwanich's horror | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horror=Topic | ||||
| 3 | disappear | past · perfect | the horses | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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