The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 165
Thus dressed, he presented himself that evening before the Duke of Beloeil, and obtained leave to try and discover his daughters’ secret.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: dress, present, obtain, try, discover · To what, where: Michael, leave, secret
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), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 dressed | advmod |
| 2 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 presented | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dressed | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 presented | nsubj |
| 5 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 presented | obj |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 evening | det |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 presented | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 Duke | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Duke | det |
| 11 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 presented | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Beloeil | case |
| 13 | Beloeil | Beloeil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Duke | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 obtained | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 obtained | cc |
| 16 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 presented | conj |
| 17 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 obtained | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 try | mark |
| 19 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 obtained | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 discover | cc |
| 21 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 try | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 23 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 secret | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 23 daughters | case |
| 25 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 discover | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | participle | Michael not said here | thus property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | present | past | Michael | Michael | before the Duke of Beloeil; evening | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | obtain | past | Michael not said here | leave | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | try | to-infinitive | Michael not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | discover | infinitive | Michael not said here | Michael's daughters's secret | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=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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