The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 11

The Prince, too, had got lost like the rest, and wandered on for a time until he came to a little clearing in the forest not far from the sea, where he saw a woman sitting on a chair and a big barrel standing beside her.

Who acts: Ring, woman, big barrel · What happens: lose, wander on, come, see, sit, stand · To what, where: Prince, little clearing, woman, chair

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ring, woman, big barrel), 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	8 lost	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Prince	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 Prince	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Prince	punct
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	aux
7	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 lost	aux:pass
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 rest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rest	det
11	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lost	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wandered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wandered	cc
14	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	14 wandered	compound:prt
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 time	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wandered	obl
19	until	until	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wandered	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 clearing	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 clearing	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 clearing	amod
25	clearing	clearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 forest	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 forest	det
28	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clearing	nmod
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 far	advmod
30	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 sea	advmod
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 sea	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sea	det
33	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 forest	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 saw	punct
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 saw	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 saw	nsubj
37	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sea	acl:relcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 woman	det
39	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 saw	obj
40	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 woman	acl
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 chair	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 chair	det
43	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sitting	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 barrel	cc
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 barrel	det
46	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 barrel	amod
47	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 chair	conj
48	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 barrel	acl
49	beside	beside	ADP	_	50 her	case
50	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 standing	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect · passive		the Prince			like the rest	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	wander on	past				time		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	Ring		a little clearing in the forest from the sea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to clearing=Initial_Location
4	see	past	Ring	a woman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
5	sit	gerund	a woman not said here		a chair and a big barrel			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location
6	stand	gerund	a big barrel not said here				beside woman	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location

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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