The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 89

In great haste the old man sprang from his bed, and covered the flower with the cloth the old witch had given him, and in a moment the beautiful Princess Hyacinthia stood before him.

Who acts: old man, beautiful Princess Hyacinthia · What happens: spring, cover, give, stand · To what, where: great haste, flower, old witch, man

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, beautiful Princess Hyacinthia), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 haste	case
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 haste	amod
3	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sprang	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sprang	nsubj
7	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 bed	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bed	nmod:poss
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sprang	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 covered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 covered	cc
13	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sprang	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flower	det
15	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 covered	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 cloth	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cloth	det
18	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 covered	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 witch	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 witch	amod
21	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 given	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 given	aux
23	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 covered	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 given	iobj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stood	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 stood	cc
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 moment	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 moment	det
29	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stood	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Hyacinthia	det
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Hyacinthia	amod
32	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Hyacinthia	compound
33	Hyacinthia	Hyacinthia	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 stood	nsubj
34	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sprang	conj
35	before	before	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stood	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring	past	the old man			great haste		from man's bed	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in haste=Trajectory
2	cover	past		the flower				with the cloth	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent flower=Destination with cloth=Theme
3	give	past · perfect · passive		the old witch	man				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme
4	stand	past	the beautiful Princess Hyacinthia				before man; moment		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location

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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