The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 50
So, with a low bow, he vanished from before them, leaving the maidens weeping at having lost in one moment both the ball and the prince.
Who acts: door · What happens: vanish, leave, weep, have, lose · To what, where: maidens
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 vanished | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 bow | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bow | det |
| 5 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bow | amod |
| 6 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vanished | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bow | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 vanished | nsubj |
| 9 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 vanished | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leaving | punct |
| 14 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 vanished | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maidens | det |
| 16 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 leaving | obj |
| 17 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 leaving | conj |
| 18 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 19 having | mark |
| 19 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 weeping | advcl |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 having | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 moment | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 moment | nummod |
| 23 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lost | obl |
| 24 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 26 ball | cc:preconj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ball | det |
| 26 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 moment | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 prince | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 prince | det |
| 29 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ball | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | door | with a low bow; from mountains = mountain | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from they=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | door not said here | the maidens | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme | ||||
| 3 | weep | gerund | door not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | gerund | door not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | lose | participle | door not said here | moment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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