The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 79
Michael followed, and entered the ball-room in their train.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: follow, enter · To what, where: ball room, train
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 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 entered | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 entered | cc |
| 5 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 7 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 room | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ball | punct |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 train | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 train | nmod:poss |
| 12 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 room | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Michael | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | enter | past | Michael not said here | the ball room | sides's train | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=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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