The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 180
The Princess Rosette’s portrait was carried at the head of the procession, and after it walked the King surrounded by his courtiers.
Who acts: portrait, Princess Rosette · What happens: carry, walk, surround, portray · To what, where: portrait, head, King
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (portrait, Princess Rosette), 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 | 3 Rosette | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rosette | compound |
| 3 | Rosette | Rosette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 portrait | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Rosette | case |
| 5 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 carried | aux:pass |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 head | det |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 procession | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 procession | det |
| 13 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 head | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 walked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 walked | cc |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 walked | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 walked | nsubj |
| 18 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 carried | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 walked | obj |
| 21 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 walked | xcomp |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 courtiers | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | the Princess Rosette's portrait | the head of the procession | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | portrait | the King | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle | portrait not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | portray | the Princess Rosette | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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