The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 62
As he was following on the steps of the Princess Lina, he carelessly trod on her dress.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: follow, tread, step · To what, where: dress, Princess Lina
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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 following | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 following | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 following | aux |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 trod | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 steps | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 steps | det |
| 7 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 following | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Lina | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lina | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Lina | compound |
| 11 | Lina | Lina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 steps | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 following | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 trod | nsubj |
| 14 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 15 trod | advmod |
| 15 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 dress | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dress | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trod | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 trod | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past · progressive | Michael | on the steps of the Princess Lina | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on step=Location | ||||
| 2 | tread | past | Michael | Lina's dress | carelessly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on dress=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | step | the Princess Lina | nom step «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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