The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 36
The rest all burst out laughing, and the eldest pointed out that a princess ought never to lower herself by looking at a garden boy.
Who acts: rest, eldest, princess · What happens: burst out, laugh, point out, not lower, look · To what, where: rest
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 (rest, eldest, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rest | det |
| 2 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burst | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 burst | advmod |
| 4 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 burst | compound:prt |
| 6 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 burst | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pointed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pointed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eldest | det |
| 10 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 pointed | nsubj |
| 11 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 burst | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 pointed | compound:prt |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 lower | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lower | nsubj |
| 16 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 lower | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 lower | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 lower | mark |
| 19 | lower | lower | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 pointed | advcl |
| 20 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 lower | obj |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 looking | mark |
| 22 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 lower | advcl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 boy | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 boy | det |
| 25 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 boy | compound |
| 26 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 looking | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst out | past | the rest | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | the rest not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | point out | participle | the eldest | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not lower | ought | a princess | rest | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | a princess not said here | at a garden boy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at boy=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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