The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 24

So the Princess had nothing left to put on but the little white frock she had been wearing the day before; and dressed in that, she went down when the time of the King’s arrival came, and sat in a corner hoping to escape notice.

Who acts: Princess, time, King · What happens: have, leave, put on, wear, dress, go down · To what, where: nothing, little white frock, that, corner, notice

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, time, King), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 had	obj
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 nothing	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 put	mark
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 left	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 put	compound:prt
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 frock	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 frock	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 frock	amod
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 frock	amod
14	frock	frock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nothing	conj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wearing	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wearing	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 wearing	aux
18	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 frock	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wearing	obl:unmarked
21	before	before	ADV	_	20 day	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 dressed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 dressed	cc
24	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 had	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 that	case
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 dressed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 went	advmod
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 came	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 time	det
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 came	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 arrival	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 King	det
36	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 arrival	nmod:poss
37	’s	's	PART	_	36 King	case
38	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 time	nmod
39	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 went	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 sat	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 sat	cc
42	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 corner	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 corner	det
45	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sat	obl
46	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 sat	advcl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 escape	mark
48	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 hoping	xcomp
49	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 escape	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Princess	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	leave	participle						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put on	to-infinitive						vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	wear	past · perfect · progressive	Princess	the little white frock not said here		day		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent frock=Theme
5	dress	participle	the Princess not said here		that			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go down	past	Princess				down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	come	past	the time of the King's arrival					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	sit	past	the Princess not said here		a corner			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
9	hope	gerund	the Princess not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
10	escape not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here	notice				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme notice=Initial_Location
11	arrive		the King					nom arrival «act intransitive»: 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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