The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 61
All the princesses disappeared down a secret staircase, and Michael hastily followed them.
Who acts: princesses, Michael · What happens: disappear down, follow · To what, where: secret staircase, princesses
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 (princesses, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 princesses | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princesses | det |
| 3 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 disappeared | nsubj |
| 4 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 disappeared | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 staircase | det |
| 7 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 staircase | amod |
| 8 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 disappeared | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 followed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 followed | cc |
| 11 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 followed | nsubj |
| 12 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 13 followed | advmod |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disappeared | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 followed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear down | past | all princesses | a secret staircase | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | Michael | princesses = princess | hastily property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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