The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 71
Each princess entered one of the boats, and Michael slipped into that which held the youngest.
Who acts: princess, Michael, that · What happens: enter, slip, hold · To what, where: one, youngest
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 (princess, Michael, that), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 entered | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 boats | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boats | det |
| 7 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 slipped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 slipped | cc |
| 10 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 slipped | nsubj |
| 11 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | parataxis |
| 12 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 15 held | mark |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 held | nsubj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 held | nsubj |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 slipped | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 youngest | det |
| 17 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 held | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | each princess | one of the boats | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Destination | ||||
| 2 | slip | past | Michael | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | hold | past | that | the youngest | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=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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