The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 43
As soon as daylight appeared the Princess came, and found him lying full length on the floor, unable to speak a word.
Who acts: daylight, Princess · What happens: appear, come, find, lie, speak · To what, where: daylight, full length, floor, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daylight, 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 | As | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 5 appeared | cc |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 4 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeared | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeared | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 found | xcomp |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 length | amod |
| 15 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lying | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 floor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 floor | det |
| 18 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lying | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 unable | punct |
| 20 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 found | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 speak | mark |
| 22 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 unable | xcomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 word | det |
| 24 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 speak | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | daylight | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the Princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | past | daylight | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | daylight not said here | full length | the floor | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location length=Theme | |||
| 5 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | daylight not said here | a word | 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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