The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 106

The Soldier had an overpowering longing to see the Princess again, and so the dog came in the middle of the night and fetched her, running as fast as he could.

Who acts: Soldier, dog · What happens: have, overpower, see, come, fetch, run · To what, where: overpowering longing, Princess, middle, Queen

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 (Soldier, dog), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Soldier	det
2	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 longing	det
5	overpowering	overpower	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 longing	amod
6	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obj
11	again	again	ADV	_	8 see	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dog	det
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 middle	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 middle	det
20	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 night	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 night	det
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 middle	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fetched	cc
25	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fetched	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 running	punct
28	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 fetched	advcl
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 fast	advmod
30	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 running	advmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 could	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 could	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 fast	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Soldier	a overpowering longing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Patient
2	overpower	gerund						tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	the Soldier not said here	the Princess		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
4	come	past	the dog		the middle of the night			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
5	fetch	past	the dog not said here	Queen				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	run	gerund	the dog not said here				fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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