The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 196
Michael held in his hand the golden cup, and he revealed the secret of the holes in the shoes.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: hold, reveal · To what, where: golden cup, hand, secret, shoes
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), 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 | 2 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hand | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cup | det |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cup | amod |
| 8 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 revealed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 revealed | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 revealed | nsubj |
| 12 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 secret | det |
| 14 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 revealed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 holes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 holes | det |
| 17 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 secret | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 shoes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 shoes | det |
| 20 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 revealed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | Michael | the golden cup | Michael's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cup=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | reveal | past | Michael | the secret of the holes | the shoes | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic |
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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