The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 77
In a moment they touched land, and the company jumped out of the boats; and the princes, after having securely fastened their barques, gave their arms to the princesses and conducted them to the castle.
Who acts: sides, company, princes · What happens: touch, jump out, have, fasten, give, conduct · To what, where: land, boats, barques, arms, princesses, sides
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 (sides, company, princes), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 jumped | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 jumped | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 company | det |
| 10 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 jumped | nsubj |
| 11 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 boats | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 boats | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boats | det |
| 15 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 jumped | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 fastened | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fastened | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princes | det |
| 19 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fastened | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 having | punct |
| 21 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 22 having | mark |
| 22 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 princes | acl |
| 23 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 22 having | advmod |
| 24 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | parataxis |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 barques | nmod:poss |
| 26 | barques | barque | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fastened | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gave | punct |
| 28 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 fastened | conj |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 arms | nmod:poss |
| 30 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 gave | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 princesses | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 princesses | det |
| 33 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 gave | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 conducted | cc |
| 35 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 fastened | conj |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 conducted | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 castle | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 castle | det |
| 39 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 conducted | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | sides = side | land | moment | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | jump out | past | the company | the boats | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boat=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | the princes not said here | securely property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fasten | past | the princes | sides's barques | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barque=Patient | ||||
| 5 | give | past | the princes not said here | sides's arms | the princesses | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent arm=Theme to princess=Recipient | |||
| 6 | conduct | past | the princes not said here | sides = side | the castle | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to castle=Destination |
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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