The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 94

When Elsa awoke the next morning in her silken bed, with its soft white pillows, she saw a beautiful dress lying over the back of a chair, ready for her to put on.

Who acts: Elsa, beautiful dress · What happens: awake, see, lie, put on · To what, where: silken bed, beautiful dress, back

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elsa, beautiful dress), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 awoke	advmod
2	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 awoke	nsubj
3	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saw	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 morning	det
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 morning	amod
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 awoke	obl:unmarked
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 bed	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bed	nmod:poss
9	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bed	amod
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 awoke	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pillows	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 pillows	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pillows	nmod:poss
14	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pillows	amod
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pillows	amod
16	pillows	pillow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 awoke	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 awoke	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dress	det
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dress	amod
22	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saw	obj
23	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 dress	acl
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 back	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 back	det
26	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lying	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 chair	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 chair	det
29	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 back	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ready	punct
31	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 saw	conj
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 put	mark
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 put	nsubj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 put	mark
35	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 ready	xcomp
36	on	on	ADP	_	35 put	compound:prt
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	awake	past	Elsa		Elsa's silken bed	morning	with bed's soft white pillows	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location
2	see	past	Elsa	a beautiful dress				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dress=Stimulus
3	lie	gerund	a beautiful dress not said here		the back of a chair			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over back=Location
4	put on	to-infinitive	Elsa					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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