The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 31
When he reached the castle, Michael went straight to the gardener and offered his services.
Who acts: noise, Michael · What happens: reach, go, offer, service · To what, where: castle, services
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 (noise, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 7 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 12 gardener | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 gardener | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gardener | det |
| 12 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 offered | cc |
| 14 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 services | nmod:poss |
| 16 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 offered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | noise | the castle | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Michael | to the gardener | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gardener=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | offer | past | Michael not said here | Michael's services | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent service=Theme | ||||
| 4 | service | Michael | nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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