The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 170
This time he did not cross in Lina’s boat.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: not cross · To what, where: time
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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cross | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cross | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 cross | advmod |
| 6 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 boat | case |
| 8 | Lina | Lina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 boat | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Lina | case |
| 10 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cross | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cross | past · do-support | Michael | this time not said here | in Lina's boat | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent time=Patient in boat=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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