The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 24

When the princess saw how beautiful he was, she fell in love with him, and asked him: ‘Why did you come here disguised in a sheepskin like that?’

Who acts: princess, king, you · What happens: see, be, fall, ask, come, disguise · To what, where: love, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, king, you), 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	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fell	advcl
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 beautiful	advmod
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saw	ccomp
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 beautiful	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 beautiful	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fell	nsubj
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 love	case
13	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 asked	cc
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fell	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 asked	iobj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
22	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	25 come	advmod
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 come	nsubj
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 asked	ccomp
26	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 come	advmod
27	disguised	disguise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 come	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 sheepskin	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 sheepskin	det
30	sheepskin	sheepskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 disguised	obl
31	like	like	ADP	_	32 that	case
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 disguised	obl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the princess				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	king			beautiful property	tree rules
3	fall	past	princess		love	with king	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
4	ask speech: ask	past	princess not said here	king			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	come	past · do-support	you		here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	disguise	participle	you not said here			like that; in a sheepskin	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sheepskin=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 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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