The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 70

Before long the Princess came with the carriage and four horses, and asked the lad whether his master was awake.

Who acts: master · What happens: long, come, ask, be · To what, where: Princess, lad

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 (master), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 long	mark
2	long	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 came	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 long	obj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 carriage	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 carriage	det
8	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 horses	cc
10	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 horses	nummod
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carriage	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 asked	cc
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lad	det
16	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asked	obj
17	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	21 awake	mark
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 master	nmod:poss
19	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 awake	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 awake	cop
21	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 asked	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	long	gerund		the Princess		tree rules
2	come	past			with the carriage and four horses	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past		the lad		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lad=Recipient
4	is	past	lad's master		awake property	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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