The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 105
The same evening the twelve sisters went again to the ball, and the Star Gazer again followed them and crossed the lake in Lina’s boat.
Who acts: twelve sisters, Star Gazer · What happens: go, follow, cross · To what, where: ball, sisters, lake
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twelve sisters, Star Gazer), 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 evening | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 evening | amod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sisters | det |
| 5 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 sisters | nummod |
| 6 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 ball | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ball | det |
| 11 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 followed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 followed | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Gazer | det |
| 15 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Gazer | compound |
| 16 | Gazer | Gazer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 followed | nsubj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 followed | advmod |
| 18 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 followed | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 crossed | cc |
| 21 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 followed | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lake | det |
| 23 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crossed | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 boat | case |
| 25 | Lina | Lina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 boat | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Lina | case |
| 27 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lake | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the twelve sisters | the ball | again; evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | follow | past | the Star Gazer | sisters = sister | again | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | cross | past | the Star Gazer not said here | the lake | in Lina's boat | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent lake=Patient in boat=Topic |
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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