The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 72
The boats glided along rapidly, but Lina’s, from being heavier, was always behind the rest.
Who acts: boats · What happens: glide, be · To what, where: rest
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 (boats), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boats | det |
| 2 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 glided | nsubj |
| 3 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 glided | advmod |
| 5 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 3 glided | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lina | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 Lina | cc |
| 8 | Lina | Lina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 glided | obl |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Lina | case |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heavier | punct |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 heavier | case |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 heavier | cop |
| 13 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 glided | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rest | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rest | cop |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 rest | advmod |
| 17 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 19 rest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rest | det |
| 19 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heavier | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide | past | the boats | 's Lina; along, rapidly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | heavy property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the rest | always property | tree rules |
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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