The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 100
At the end of the dance he bowed low to his partner and left her, to mingle with the crowd that was filling the doorway.
Who acts: Lad, crowd · What happens: bow, leave, mingle, fill · To what, where: end, princess, doorway
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lad, crowd), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bowed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dance | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dance | det |
| 6 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bowed | nsubj |
| 8 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bowed | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 partner | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 partner | nmod:poss |
| 12 | partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bowed | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bowed | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mingle | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 mingle | mark |
| 18 | mingle | mingle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 left | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 crowd | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 crowd | det |
| 21 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mingle | obl |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 filling | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 filling | aux |
| 24 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 crowd | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 doorway | det |
| 26 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 filling | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | Lad | at the end of the dance | to Lad's partner; low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to partner=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | past | Lad not said here | princess | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mingle | to-infinitive | Lad not said here | with the crowd | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with crowd=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | fill | past · progressive | the crowd | the doorway | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent doorway=Patient |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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