The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 52

‘My Princess! have I found you at last?’ said he, alighting close to her.

Who acts: Princess, I, light · What happens: have, find, say, alight · To what, where: you, last, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (Princess, I, light), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Princess	nmod:poss
3	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Princess	punct
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	ccomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 found	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 found	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 alighting	punct
16	alighting	alight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
17	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 alighting	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 alighting	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	My Princess					tree rules
2	find	past	I	you		last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Theme at last=Asset
3	say speech: assert	past	light					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	alight	gerund	light not said here		Princess		close property	tree rules

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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