The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 198
‘My choice is already made,’ replied the garden boy, and he offered his hand to the youngest Princess, who blushed and lowered her eyes.
Who acts: boy, youngest Princess · What happens: make, reply, offer, blush, lower · To what, where: choice, garden boy, hand, youngest Princess, eyes
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, youngest Princess), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 choice | nmod:poss |
| 3 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | already | already | ADV | _ | 6 made | advmod |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 replied | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boy | compound |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 offered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 offered | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 offered | nsubj |
| 16 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 offered | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Princess | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Princess | det |
| 21 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 Princess | amod |
| 22 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 offered | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 blushed | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 blushed | nsubj |
| 25 | blushed | blush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lowered | cc |
| 27 | lowered | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 blushed | conj |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 lowered | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | My choice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the garden boy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent boy=Topic | |||||
| 3 | offer | past | boy | boy's hand | the youngest Princess | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to princess=Goal | |||
| 4 | blush | past | the youngest Princess | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | lower | past | the youngest Princess not said here | room's eyes | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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