The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 164
Michael gathered it, and found himself in a moment clothed in velvet, which was as black as the eyes of the little Princess, with a cap to match, a diamond aigrette, and a blossom of the rose laurel in his button-hole.
Who acts: Michael, velvet · What happens: gather, find, clothe, be, match · To what, where: flower, Michael, moment
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 (Michael, velvet), 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 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gathered | nsubj |
| 2 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gathered | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gathered | conj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 found | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 moment | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 moment | det |
| 10 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 11 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 moment | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 velvet | case |
| 13 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clothed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 black | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 black | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 black | cop |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 black | advmod |
| 18 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 velvet | acl:relcl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 eyes | det |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 black | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Princess | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Princess | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Princess | amod |
| 25 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 eyes | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 cap | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 cap | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 cap | det |
| 29 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 match | mark |
| 31 | match | match | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 cap | acl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 aigrette | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 aigrette | det |
| 34 | diamond | diamond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 aigrette | amod |
| 35 | aigrette | aigrette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cap | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 blossom | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 blossom | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 blossom | det |
| 39 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gathered | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 laurel | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 laurel | det |
| 42 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 laurel | compound |
| 43 | laurel | laurel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 blossom | nmod |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 hole | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 hole | nmod:poss |
| 46 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 hole | compound |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 button | punct |
| 48 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 laurel | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | Michael | flower | a blossom of the rose laurel in Michael's button hole obl | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | Michael not said here | Michael | moment | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 3 | clothe | participle | a moment not said here | in velvet | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in velvet=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | velvet | as the eyes of the little Princess; black property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | match | to-infinitive | Michael not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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