The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 82
He placed himself out of the way in a corner, admiring the grace and beauty of the princesses.
Who acts: Gazer · What happens: place, admire · To what, where: Gazer, way, grace
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 (Gazer), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 placed | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 corner | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 corner | det |
| 10 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 way | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 admiring | punct |
| 12 | admiring | admire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 placed | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grace | det |
| 14 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 admiring | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 beauty | cc |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grace | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 princesses | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princesses | det |
| 19 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 beauty | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | Gazer | Gazer | the way in a corner | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme out way=Destination | |||
| 2 | admire | gerund | Gazer not said here | the grace and beauty of the princesses | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grace=Stimulus |
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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