The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 105

But the next night one of the ladies-in-waiting was to watch at the Princess’s bed, to see if it was only a dream, or if it had actually happened.

Who acts: bed, it · What happens: be, watch, see, happen · To what, where: bed, dream

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed, it), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 one	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 night	amod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	obl:unmarked
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 ladies	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ladies	det
8	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 waiting	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 waiting	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 in	punct
12	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ladies	conj
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 watch	mark
15	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 was	xcomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	20 bed	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Princess	det
18	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 bed	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 Princess	case
20	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 watch	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 watch	conj
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 dream	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 dream	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 dream	cop
27	only	only	ADV	_	29 dream	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 dream	det
29	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 happened	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 happened	cc
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 happened	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 happened	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 happened	aux
35	actually	actually	ADV	_	36 happened	advmod
36	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 see	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past					tree rules
2	watch	to-infinitive			the Princess's bed		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bed=Location
3	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	bed	a dream			tree rules
5	happen a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	it			actually property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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