The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 184
At last the eldest sister made a sign, and one of the black pages brought in a large golden cup.
What happens: make, bring · To what, where: sign, black pages, large golden cup
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 sister | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sister | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sister | det |
| 4 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 sister | amod |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sign | det |
| 8 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 one | cc |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 made | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 pages | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pages | det |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pages | amod |
| 15 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 pages | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 cup | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cup | det |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cup | amod |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cup | amod |
| 21 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | a sign | at the last eldest sister; one of the black pages obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product | ||||
| 2 | bring | participle | the black pages not said here | a large golden cup | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
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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