The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 49
When day came the Princess went to the room to see if he was still alive, and taking the bottle put it to his nostrils, which soon brought him to himself.
Who acts: day, Princess, daylight, taking · What happens: come, go, see, be, take, put · To what, where: room, bottle, nostrils, daylight
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 (day, Princess, daylight, taking), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | advcl |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 alive | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 alive | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 alive | cop |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 alive | advmod |
| 16 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 see | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 put | cc |
| 19 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 put | csubj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bottle | det |
| 21 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taking | obj |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 put | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 nostrils | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 nostrils | nmod:poss |
| 26 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 put | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 brought | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 brought | obj |
| 29 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 brought | advmod |
| 30 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 nostrils | acl:relcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 brought | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 himself | case |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 brought | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the Princess | the room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | daylight | still | alive property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | take | gerund | the bottle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme | |||||
| 6 | put | past | taking | bottle | to daylight's nostrils | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 7 | bring | past | daylight's nostrils | daylight | soon property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument which=Theme he=Destination |
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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