The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 6

But, alas! the third night the spy was not quite so sleepy, and when the Princess opened her window and cried as usual:

Who acts: spy, Princess · What happens: not be, open, cry · To what, where: window

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (spy, Princess), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	14 sleepy	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 night	punct
3	alas	alas	INTJ	_	7 night	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 night	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
6	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sleepy	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spy	det
9	spy	spy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sleepy	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sleepy	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 sleepy	advmod
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 sleepy	advmod
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 sleepy	advmod
14	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 opened	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 opened	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 opened	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Princess	det
19	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 opened	nsubj
20	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sleepy	parataxis
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 window	nmod:poss
22	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 opened	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cried	cc
24	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 opened	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 usual	case
26	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cried	obl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 sleepy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the spy		night	sleepy property	tree rules
2	open	past	the Princess	Princess's window			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	the Princess not said here			as usual	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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