The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 94
After supper, the dancers all went back to their boats, and this time the Star Gazer entered that of the eldest Princess.
Who acts: dancers, Star Gazer · What happens: go back, enter
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 (dancers, Star 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 supper | case |
| 2 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 supper | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dancers | det |
| 5 | dancers | dancer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | nsubj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 boats | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 boats | nmod:poss |
| 11 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 entered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 entered | cc |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 entered | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Gazer | det |
| 17 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Gazer | compound |
| 18 | Gazer | Gazer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 entered | nsubj |
| 19 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 Princess | mark |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Princess | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Princess | det |
| 23 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 Princess | amod |
| 24 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 entered | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the dancers | after supper | to dancers's boats result; all property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to boat=Result | |||
| 2 | enter | past | the Star Gazer | time | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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