The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 63

In the evening, while the Princess, with her mother and sisters, was standing at the window, the Prince suddenly galloped past on his steed and threw her the golden apple.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: stand, gallop, throw · To what, where: window, steed, golden apple, Princess

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 standing	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Princess	punct
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 Princess	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 evening	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mother	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 mother	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Princess	appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sisters	cc
13	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mother	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 standing	aux
16	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 window	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 window	det
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 standing	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 standing	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Prince	det
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 galloped	nsubj
23	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	24 galloped	advmod
24	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 standing	parataxis
25	past	past	ADP	_	28 steed	case
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 steed	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 steed	nmod:poss
28	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 galloped	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 threw	cc
30	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 galloped	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 threw	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 apple	det
33	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 apple	amod
34	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 threw	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive				the window	evening		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
2	gallop	past	the Prince			prince's steed		suddenly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past steed=Trajectory
3	throw	past	the Prince not said here	the golden apple	Princess				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination apple=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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