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title: When morning dawned, and the Princess came to see if he was still al… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When morning dawned, and the Princess came to see if he was still alive, she found him lying on the floor as if dead. Who acts: Princess, three. 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 53

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When morning dawned, and the Princess came to see if he was still alive, she found him lying on the floor as if dead.

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**Who acts:** Princess, three · **What happens:** dawn, come, see, be, find, lie · **To what, where:** three, floor

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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 (Princess, three), 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:pg640:45:53
# text = When morning dawned, and the Princess came to see if he was still alive, she found him lying on the floor as if dead.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	dawned	dawn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
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	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dawn** | past | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | three |  |  |  | still | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | past | Princess | three |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 6 | **lie** | gerund | three *not said here* |  |  | the floor |  | as dead | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location |

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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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