The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 90
The princesses had made them drink something of a philtre, which froze the heart and left nothing but the love of dancing.
Who acts: princesses, philtre · What happens: make, drink, freeze, leave, love · To what, where: princesses, something, heart, nothing, dancing
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 (princesses, philtre), 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 princesses | det |
| 2 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | xcomp |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 drink | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 philtre | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 philtre | det |
| 10 | philtre | philtre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 something | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 froze | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 froze | nsubj |
| 13 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 philtre | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heart | det |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 froze | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 left | cc |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 froze | conj |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 left | obj |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 love | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 love | det |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nothing | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 dancing | case |
| 23 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 love | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | the princesses | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drink | infinitive | the princesses not said here | something | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 3 | freeze | past | a philtre | the heart | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient heart=Result | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | a philtre not said here | nothing | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 5 | love | dancing | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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