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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 82

Towards midnight the beautiful girl appeared, and placing her in front of him on his horse, the Prince and she flew like the wind till they reached the Flower Queen’s dwelling.

Who acts: midnight, girl, stables · What happens: appear, place, fly, reach · To what, where: girl, front, dwelling

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (midnight, girl, stables), 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

advmodnsubjdetamodnsubjpunctccadvclobjcaseoblcasenmodcasenmod:possoblpunctdetapposccnsubjconjcasedetoblmarknsubjadvcldetcompoundnmod:posscaseobjpunctrootTowardsADVmidnightNOUNtheDETbeautifulADJgirlNOUNappearedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJplacingVERBherPRONinADPfrontNOUNofADPhimPRONonADPhisPRONhorseNOUN,PUNCTtheDETPrincePROPNandCCONJshePRONflewVERBlikeADPtheDETwindNOUNtillSCONJtheyPRONreachedVERBtheDETFlowerPROPNQueenPROPN’sPARTdwellingNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TowardstowardsADV_2 midnightadvmod
2midnightmidnightNOUNNumber=Sing6 appearednsubj
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 girldet
4beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos5 girlamod
5girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing6 appearednsubj
6appearedappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7,,PUNCT_9 placingpunct
8andandCCONJ_9 placingcc
9placingplaceVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 appearedadvcl
10hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 placingobj
11ininADP_12 frontcase
12frontfrontNOUNNumber=Sing9 placingobl
13ofofADP_14 himcase
14himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 frontnmod
15ononADP_17 horsecase
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 horsenmod:poss
17horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing9 placingobl
18,,PUNCT_20 Princepunct
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 Princedet
20PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing17 horseappos
21andandCCONJ_23 flewcc
22sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 flewnsubj
23flewflyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 appearedconj
24likelikeADP_26 windcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 winddet
26windwindNOUNNumber=Sing23 flewobl
27tilltillSCONJ_29 reachedmark
28theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs29 reachednsubj
29reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 flewadvcl
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 Queendet
31FlowerFlowerPROPNNumber=Sing32 Queencompound
32QueenQueenPROPNNumber=Sing34 dwellingnmod:poss
33’s'sPART_32 Queencase
34dwellingdwellingNOUNNumber=Sing29 reachedobj
35..PUNCT_6 appearedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1appearpastmidnightvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2placegerundmidnight not said heregirlfront of Princeon Prince's horsevn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on horse=Destination
3flypastgirllike the windvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4reachpaststables = stablethe Flower Queen's dwellingvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent dwelling=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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