The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 1

When he had done speaking, the princess knelt down to receive his blessing, and they went their different ways.

Who acts: he, princess, they, his · What happens: do, speak, kneel down, receive, go, bless · To what, where: blessing, different ways · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, princess, they, his), 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 done	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 done	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knelt	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knelt	nsubj
9	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 speaking	parataxis
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 knelt	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 receive	mark
12	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 knelt	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 blessing	nmod:poss
14	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 receive	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 knelt	conj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 ways	nmod:poss
20	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ways	amod
21	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 went	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	he			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	gerund				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	kneel down	past	the princess		down property	tree rules
4	receive	to-infinitive	the princess not said here	his blessing		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme
5	go	past	they	their different ways		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
6	bless		his = he			nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=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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