The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 53
When morning dawned, and the Princess came to see if he was still alive, she found him lying on the floor as if dead.
Who acts: Princess, three · What happens: dawn, come, see, be, find, lie · To what, where: three, floor
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 (Princess, three), 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 dawned | advmod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dawned | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 found | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 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 | 3 dawned | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 came | advcl |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 alive | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 alive | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 alive | cop |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 alive | advmod |
| 15 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 see | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dawned | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | obj |
| 20 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 found | xcomp |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 floor | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 floor | det |
| 23 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lying | obl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 dead | case |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 dead | mark |
| 26 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lying | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | past | Princess not said here | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the Princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 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 | three | still | alive property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | find | past | Princess | three | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lie | gerund | three not said here | the floor | as dead | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=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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