The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 111
Early next morning the King, Queen, ladies-in-waiting, and officers came out to see where the Princess had been.
Who acts: King, Princess · What happens: come out, see, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, Princess), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Queen | punct |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 waiting | punct |
| 9 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 waiting | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 waiting | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 waiting | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 in | punct |
| 13 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 King | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 16 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 came | advcl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 been | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Princess | det |
| 23 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 been | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 been | aux |
| 25 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 see | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the King and Queen and waiting | morning | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the King and Queen and waiting not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | past · perfect | the Princess | vn exist-47.1 «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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