English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 8

The day was done and the night came on and Earl Mar's daughter was thinking of going to sleep when, turning round, she found at her side a handsome young man.

Who acts: night, daughter · What happens: do, come on, think, go, sleep, turn round · To what, where: day, handsome young man, side

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, daughter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 done	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux:pass
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	conj
9	on	on	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 thinking	cc
11	Earl	Earl	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 daughter	nmod:poss
12	Mar	March	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	11 Earl	flat
13	's	's	PART	_	11 Earl	case
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thinking	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 thinking	aux
16	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	conj
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 going	mark
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 thinking	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 sleep	mark
20	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 going	xcomp
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 sleep	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turning	punct
23	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 thinking	conj
24	round	round	ADV	_	23 turning	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 found	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 found	nsubj
27	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	parataxis
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 side	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 side	nmod:poss
30	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 found	obl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 man	det
32	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 man	amod
33	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 man	amod
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 found	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		the day			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	come on	past	the night				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	past · progressive	Earl's daughter				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	gerund	Earl's daughter not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	sleep	to-infinitive	Earl's daughter not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	turn round	gerund	Earl's daughter not said here			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	find	past	daughter	a handsome young man	daughter's side		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent man=Theme at side=Asset

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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