The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 80

Precisely at nine o’clock came the Princess in the carriage with four horses, and asked the lad if his master had got up yet; but he said ‘No, he was asleep, just as he was the day before.’

Who acts: Princess, master, lad · What happens: come, ask, get up, say, be · To what, where: nine o’clock, lad · 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 (Princess, master, lad), 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	Precisely	precisely	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 o’clock	case
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 o’clock	nummod
4	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
5	came	come	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	5 came	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 carriage	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 carriage	det
10	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 horses	case
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 horses	nummod
13	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 asked	cc
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lad	det
18	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 asked	obj
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 got	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 master	nmod:poss
21	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 got	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 got	aux
23	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 asked	ccomp
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 got	compound:prt
25	yet	yet	ADV	_	23 got	advmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 asleep	punct
31	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	35 asleep	discourse
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 asleep	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 asleep	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 asleep	cop
35	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 said	ccomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 day	punct
37	just	just	ADV	_	42 day	advmod
38	as	as	ADP	_	42 day	case
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 day	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 day	cop
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 day	det
42	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 asleep	conj
43	before	before	ADV	_	42 day	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 asleep	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	35 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Princess		nine o’clock		in the carriage; with four horses; precisely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at o'clock=Location
2	ask speech: ask	past		the lad				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent lad=Recipient clause=Topic
3	get up a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	lad's master			yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	lad					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	lad				asleep property	tree rules
6	is	past	lad			as the day	before 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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