The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 95
They crossed again the wood with the diamond-spangled leaves, the wood with gold-sprinkled leaves, and the wood whose leaves glittered with drops of silver, and as a proof of what he had seen, the boy broke a small branch from a tree in the last wood.
Who acts: princesses, Gazer, boy · What happens: cross, spangle, sprinkle, glitter, see, break · To what, where: wood, small branch
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, Gazer, boy), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 crossed | nsubj |
| 2 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 crossed | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wood | det |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crossed | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 leaves | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 leaves | det |
| 8 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spangled | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 diamond | punct |
| 10 | spangled | spangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 leaves | amod |
| 11 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 crossed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wood | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wood | det |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaves | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 leaves | case |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sprinkled | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 gold | punct |
| 18 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 leaves | amod |
| 19 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wood | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 glittered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 glittered | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wood | det |
| 23 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 glittered | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 25 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 25 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 glittered | nsubj |
| 26 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 crossed | parataxis |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 drops | case |
| 28 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 glittered | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 silver | case |
| 30 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drops | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 broke | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 broke | cc |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 proof | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 proof | det |
| 35 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 broke | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 what | case |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 proof | nmod |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 seen | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 seen | aux |
| 40 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 what | acl:relcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 proof | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 boy | det |
| 43 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 broke | nsubj |
| 44 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crossed | parataxis |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 branch | det |
| 46 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 branch | amod |
| 47 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 broke | obj |
| 48 | from | from | ADP | _ | 50 tree | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 tree | det |
| 50 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 broke | obl |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 wood | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 wood | det |
| 53 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 wood | amod |
| 54 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 broke | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | princesses = princess | the wood | again | with the spangled leaves and the wood with sprinkled leaves | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient | ||
| 2 | spangle | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | sprinkle | participle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | glitter | participle · passive | the wood | with drops of silver | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | past · perfect | Gazer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | break | past | the boy | a small branch | as a proof; in the last wood; from a tree | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent branch=Patient from tree=Co-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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