The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 193
The twelve couples embarked in the boats, which crossed back many times in order to carry over the other princes.
Who acts: boats · What happens: embark, cross back, carry · To what, where: twelve couples, boats
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 (boats), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 couples | det |
| 2 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 couples | nummod |
| 3 | couples | couple | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | embarked | embark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 couples | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 boats | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boats | det |
| 7 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 embarked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crossed | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 crossed | nsubj |
| 10 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 boats | acl:relcl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 crossed | advmod |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 times | amod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 crossed | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 carry | mark |
| 15 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 in | fixed |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 carry | mark |
| 17 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 crossed | advcl |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 princes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princes | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 princes | amod |
| 21 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 carry | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 couples | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embark | participle | the twelve couples not said here | the boats | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cross back | past | the boats | time | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | the boats not said here | over the other princes | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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