The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 187
He cast a lingering glance at the little Princess, and without hesitation lifted the cup.
Who acts: boy · What happens: cast, lift · To what, where: lingering glance, 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: who acts (boy), 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 cast | nsubj |
| 2 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 glance | det |
| 4 | lingering | lingering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glance | compound |
| 5 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cast | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Princess | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Princess | amod |
| 9 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cast | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lifted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lifted | cc |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 hesitation | case |
| 13 | hesitation | hesitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lifted | obl |
| 14 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cast | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cup | det |
| 16 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lifted | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | past | boy | a lingering glance | at the little Princess | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glance=Theme at princess=Destination | |||
| 2 | lift | past | boy not said here | the cup | without hesitation | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=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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