The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 180
Michael was placed next to the eldest sister, and opposite to the youngest.
What happens: place · To what, where: Michael
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: 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 | 3 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 placed | aux:pass |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 placed | advmod |
| 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 | 3 placed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 opposite | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 opposite | cc |
| 11 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 placed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 youngest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 youngest | det |
| 14 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 opposite | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | Michael | to the eldest sister; next property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme |
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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