The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 155
They sent for the Star Gazer, and asked him how he had contrived to learn their secret; but still he remained silent.
Who acts: sisters, Gazer · What happens: send, ask, contrive, learn, remain · To what, where: Gazer, secret · 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 (sisters, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Gazer | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Gazer | det |
| 5 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Gazer | compound |
| 6 | Gazer | Gazer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 contrived | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 contrived | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 contrived | aux |
| 14 | contrived | contrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 learn | mark |
| 16 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 contrived | advcl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 secret | nmod:poss |
| 18 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 learn | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 remained | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 remained | cc |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 remained | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 remained | nsubj |
| 23 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 24 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 remained | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | sisters = sister | for the Star Gazer | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | sisters = sister not said here | Gazer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | contrive | past · perfect | Gazer | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | learn | to-infinitive | Gazer not said here | sisters's secret | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic | ||||
| 5 | remain | past | Gazer | still | silent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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