The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 51
He then entered his palace, and the three Princesses stepped forward to meet him.
Who acts: King, three Princesses · What happens: enter, step forward, meet · To what, where: palace, King
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, three Princesses), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 entered | advmod |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 palace | nmod:poss |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stepped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stepped | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princesses | det |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 Princesses | nummod |
| 10 | Princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stepped | nsubj |
| 11 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 12 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 11 stepped | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stepped | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 meet | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | King | King's palace | then | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | |||
| 2 | step forward | past | the three Princesses | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the three Princesses not said here | King | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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