The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 18
The princess herself led the child into the room where the twenty men were now seated.
Who acts: princess · What happens: lead, seat · To what, where: child, room, twenty men
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 led | nsubj |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 seated | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 men | det |
| 12 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 men | nummod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seated | aux:pass |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 seated | advmod |
| 16 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 room | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the princess | the child | the room | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme into room=Destination | |||
| 2 | seat | past · passive | the twenty men | now | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
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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