The Yellow Fairy Book, How to Tell a True Princess, sentence 9

There stood a Princess outside the gate; but oh, in what a sad plight she was from the rain and the storm!

Who acts: Princess · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: Princess, gate, rain

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How to Tell a True Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 stood	expl
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
4	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obj
5	outside	outside	ADP	_	7 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Princess	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 rain	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 rain	cc
10	oh	oh	INTJ	_	21 rain	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 oh	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 plight	case
13	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	16 plight	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 plight	det
15	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 plight	amod
16	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rain	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 rain	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 rain	cop
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 rain	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rain	det
21	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 storm	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 storm	det
24	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rain	conj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a Princess		the gate; there			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme outside gate=Destination
2	is	past	Princess			the rain and the storm		in what sad plight	tree rules

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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