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The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 93

When the cock crowed the third time the fiddles stopped, and a delicious supper was served by negro boys, consisting of sugared orange flowers, crystallised rose leaves, powdered violets, cracknels, wafers, and other dishes, which are, as everyone knows, the favourite food of princesses.

Who acts: cock, fiddles, negro boys, consisting, everyone · What happens: crow, stop, serve, consist, sugar, crystallis · To what, where: other dishes, third time, delicious supper, leaves

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 (cock, fiddles, negro boys, consisting), 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

advmoddetnsubjdetamodobjdetnsubjacl:relclpunctccdetamodnsubj:passaux:passparataxiscaseamodoblpunctcsubjcaseamodamodoblpunctconjconjobjpunctamodconjpunctconjpunctconjpunctccamodoblpunctobjcoppunctmarknsubjacl:relclpunctdetamodconjcasenmodpunctrootWhenADVtheDETcockNOUNcrowedVERBtheDETthirdADJtimeNOUNtheDETfiddlesNOUNstoppedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJaDETdeliciousADJsupperNOUNwasAUXservedVERBbyADPnegroADJboysNOUN,PUNCTconsistingVERBofADPsugaredVERBorangeADJflowersNOUN,PUNCTcrystallisedVERBroseVERBleavesNOUN,PUNCTpowderedVERBvioletsNOUN,PUNCTcracknelsNOUN,PUNCTwafersNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJotherADJdishesNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONareAUX,PUNCTasSCONJeveryonePRONknowsVERB,PUNCTtheDETfavouriteADJfoodNOUNofADPprincessesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int4 crowedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 cockdet
3cockcockNOUNNumber=Sing4 crowednsubj
4crowedcrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 timedet
6thirdthirdADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord7 timeamod
7timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing4 crowedobj
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 fiddlesdet
9fiddlesfiddleNOUNNumber=Plur10 stoppednsubj
10stoppedstopVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 timeacl:relcl
11,,PUNCT_17 servedpunct
12andandCCONJ_17 servedcc
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 supperdet
14deliciousdeliciousADJDegree=Pos15 supperamod
15suppersupperNOUNNumber=Sing17 servednsubj:pass
16wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 servedaux:pass
17servedserveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 crowedparataxis
18bybyADP_20 boyscase
19negronegroADJDegree=Pos20 boysamod
20boysboyNOUNNumber=Plur17 servedobl
21,,PUNCT_22 consistingpunct
22consistingconsistVERBVerbForm=Ger29 rosecsubj
23ofofADP_26 flowerscase
24sugaredsugarVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass26 flowersamod
25orangeorangeADJDegree=Pos26 flowersamod
26flowersflowerNOUNNumber=Plur22 consistingobl
27,,PUNCT_28 crystallisedpunct
28crystallisedcrystallisVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass26 flowersconj
29roseriseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 servedconj
30leavesleafNOUNNumber=Plur29 roseobj
31,,PUNCT_33 violetspunct
32powderedpowderVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass33 violetsamod
33violetsvioletNOUNNumber=Plur30 leavesconj
34,,PUNCT_35 cracknelspunct
35cracknelscracknelNOUNNumber=Plur33 violetsconj
36,,PUNCT_37 waferspunct
37waferswaferNOUNNumber=Plur30 leavesconj
38,,PUNCT_41 dishespunct
39andandCCONJ_41 dishescc
40otherotherADJDegree=Pos41 dishesamod
41dishesdishNOUNNumber=Plur4 crowedobl
42,,PUNCT_48 knowspunct
43whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel48 knowsobj
44arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin48 knowscop
45,,PUNCT_48 knowspunct
46asasSCONJ_48 knowsmark
47everyoneeveryonePRONNumber=Sing PronType=Tot48 knowsnsubj
48knowsknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin41 dishesacl:relcl
49,,PUNCT_52 foodpunct
50thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art52 fooddet
51favouritefavouriteADJDegree=Pos52 foodamod
52foodfoodNOUNNumber=Sing41 dishesconj
53ofofADP_54 princessescase
54princessesprincessNOUNNumber=Plur52 foodnmod
55..PUNCT_4 crowedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1crowpastthe cockother dishes and the favourite food of princessestimevn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2stoppastthe fiddlesthe third time not said herevn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality time=Eventuality
3servepast · passivenegro boysa delicious suppervn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute
4consistgerundof sugared orange flowerstree rules
5sugarparticiplevn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
6crystallisparticipletree rules
7risepastconsistingleaves and powdered violets and cracknels and wafersvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme
8powderparticiplevn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9ispresenteveryoneknow propertytree 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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