The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 34
Accordingly he placed himself behind the door of the princesses’ room, with the twelve bouquets in a basket.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: place · To what, where: Michael, door
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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 3 placed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 placed | nsubj |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 placed | obj |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 room | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princesses | det |
| 10 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 room | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 10 princesses | case |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bouquets | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 bouquets | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bouquets | det |
| 16 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 bouquets | nummod |
| 17 | bouquets | bouquet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 placed | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 basket | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 basket | det |
| 20 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bouquets | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | Michael | Michael | the door of the princesses's room | with the twelve bouquets in a basket; accordingly property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme behind door=Destination |
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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