The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 171
He gave his arm to the eldest sister, danced with each in turn, and was so graceful that everyone was delighted with him.
Who acts: Michael, everyone · What happens: give, dance, be · To what, where: arm, eldest sister, turn
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, everyone), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 arm | nmod:poss |
| 4 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 sister | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sister | det |
| 7 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 sister | amod |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 danced | punct |
| 10 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sister | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 each | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 danced | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 turn | case |
| 14 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 danced | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 graceful | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 graceful | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 graceful | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 graceful | advmod |
| 19 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 delighted | mark |
| 21 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 delighted | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 delighted | cop |
| 23 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 graceful | advcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 delighted | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Michael | Michael's arm | the eldest sister | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent arm=Theme to sister=Recipient | |||
| 2 | dance | participle | the eldest sister not said here | turn | with each | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in turn=Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | graceful property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | past | everyone | with Michael; delighted property | tree rules |
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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