The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 49

She thought, ‘Alas! what am I coming to?’ and peeped through the window; but she saw nothing inside except big and little toads, and a table beautifully spread with roast meats and wine, and all the dishes and drinking-cups were of silver.

Who acts: princess, I, dishes · What happens: think, come, peep, see, spread, be · To what, where: nothing, table · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, I, dishes), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 coming	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 coming	punct
5	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	10 coming	discourse
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Alas	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 coming	obj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 coming	aux
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 coming	nsubj
10	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 coming	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 coming	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 coming	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 peeped	cc
15	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 window	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 window	det
18	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 peeped	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 saw	obj
24	inside	inside	ADV	_	23 nothing	advmod
25	except	except	ADP	_	29 toads	case
26	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 toads	amod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 little	cc
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 big	conj
29	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 nothing	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 spread	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 spread	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 table	det
33	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 spread	obj
34	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	35 spread	advmod
35	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	parataxis
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 meats	case
37	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 meats	compound
38	meats	meat	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 spread	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 wine	cc
40	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 meats	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 silver	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 silver	cc
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 dishes	det:predet
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 dishes	det
45	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 silver	nsubj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 cups	cc
47	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 cups	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 drinking	punct
49	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 dishes	conj
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 silver	cop
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 silver	case
52	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	princess			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	come	present · progressive	I			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme
3	peep	past	princess not said here		through the window	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme
4	see	past	princess	nothing	except big toads	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
5	spread	present		a table	with roast meats and wine; beautifully property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent table=Destination with meat=Theme
6	is	past	all dishes and drinking cups		of silver	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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