The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 50
Then there instantly appeared on the laurel a pretty white flower, which Michael gathered and stuck into his button-hole.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: appear, gather, stick · To what, where: pretty white flower, laurel, button hole
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 appeared | expl |
| 3 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 appeared | advmod |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 laurel | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 laurel | det |
| 7 | laurel | laurel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 flower | det |
| 9 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flower | amod |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flower | amod |
| 11 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gathered | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 gathered | obj |
| 14 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 gathered | nsubj |
| 15 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 flower | acl:relcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stuck | cc |
| 17 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appeared | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 hole | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hole | nmod:poss |
| 20 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hole | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 button | punct |
| 22 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stuck | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a pretty white flower | the laurel; there | then | instantly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on laurel=Location | ||
| 2 | gather | past | Michael | a pretty white flower | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stick | past | Michael's button hole | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into hole=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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