The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 169
Michael followed them, and waited behind the open door till they gave the signal for departure.
Who acts: Michael, princesses · What happens: follow, wait, give · To what, where: princesses, open door, signal
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, princesses), 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 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 followed | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 waited | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 waited | cc |
| 6 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | conj |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 9 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 door | amod |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waited | obl |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 gave | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 waited | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 signal | det |
| 15 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 departure | case |
| 17 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 signal | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Michael | princesses = princess | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | Michael not said here | the open door | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind door=Location | ||||
| 3 | give | past | princesses = princess | the signal | for departure | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent signal=Theme for departure=Asset |
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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