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title: As soon as daylight appeared the Princess came, and found him lying… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as daylight appeared the Princess came, and found him lying full length on the floor, unable to speak a word. Who acts: daylight, Princess. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 43

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As soon as daylight appeared the Princess came, and found him lying full length on the floor, unable to speak a word.

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**Who acts:** daylight, Princess · **What happens:** appear, come, find, lie, speak · **To what, where:** daylight, full length, floor, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daylight, Princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:45:43
# text = As soon as daylight appeared the Princess came, and found him lying full length on the floor, unable to speak a word.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	5	cc	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	fixed	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
4	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | daylight |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **come** | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past |  | daylight |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund | daylight *not said here* | full length |  | the floor |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location length=Theme |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | daylight *not said here* | a word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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