The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 63
‘There is somebody behind me,’ cried the Princess; ‘they are holding my dress.’
Who acts: somebody, princesses · What happens: be, cry, hold · To what, where: Princess, dress
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 (somebody, princesses), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 somebody | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 holding | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 holding | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 holding | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 holding | aux |
| 16 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | advcl |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dress | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 holding | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 holding | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 holding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | somebody | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hold | present · progressive | princesses = princess | my dress | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=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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