The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 99
While she was speaking Michael managed to slip in front, and running up the staircase, he reached the princesses’ room first.
Who acts: Lina, Michael · What happens: speak, manage, slip, run up, reach · To what, where: staircase, room · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lina, Michael), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 speaking | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 speaking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speaking | aux |
| 4 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 managed | advcl |
| 5 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 managed | nsubj |
| 6 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 slip | mark |
| 8 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 managed | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 front | case |
| 10 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slip | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reached | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 reached | cc |
| 13 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 reached | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 running | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 staircase | det |
| 16 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 running | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 running | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 reached | nsubj |
| 19 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 managed | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princesses | det |
| 21 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 room | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 21 princesses | case |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | obj |
| 24 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 reached | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | Lina | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | manage | past | Michael | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | slip | to-infinitive | Michael not said here | in front | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in front=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | run up | gerund | Michael not said here | the staircase | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme staircase=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | reach | past | Michael | the princesses's room | first property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent room=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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