The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 110

As they came back, Michael gathered a branch from the wood with the gold-spangled leaves, and now it was the eldest Princess who heard the noise that it made in breaking.

Who acts: boats, Michael, branch, eldest Princess · What happens: come back, gather, spangle, be, hear, make · To what, where: branch, wood, eldest Princess, noise, breaking · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boats, Michael, branch, eldest 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 came	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gathered	advcl
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
6	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gathered	nsubj
7	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 branch	det
9	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gathered	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 wood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gathered	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	18 leaves	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 leaves	det
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spangled	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 gold	punct
17	spangled	spangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 leaves	amod
18	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wood	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Princess	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Princess	cc
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 Princess	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 Princess	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 Princess	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Princess	det
25	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 Princess	amod
26	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wood	conj
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 heard	nsubj
28	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 Princess	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 noise	det
30	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 heard	obj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 made	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 made	nsubj
33	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 heard	ccomp
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 breaking	case
35	breaking	breaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come back	past	boats = boat				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	gather	past	Michael	a branch	the wood with the spangled leaves and the eldest Princess		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent branch=Theme from wood=Source
3	spangle	participle					tree rules
4	is a	past	branch	the eldest Princess		now	tree rules
5	hear	past	the eldest Princess	the noise			tree rules
6	make	past	branch		breaking		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material

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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