The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 75
When they met the Duchess Grumbly she was seated in an open carriage trying in vain to look dignified.
Who acts: courtiers, open carriage · What happens: meet, seat, try, look, dignify · To what, where: Duchess Grumbly, Grumbly, open carriage, vain
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtiers, open carriage), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 met | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Grumbly | det |
| 5 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Grumbly | compound |
| 6 | Grumbly | Grumbly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seated | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seated | aux:pass |
| 9 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 met | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 carriage | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 carriage | det |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 carriage | amod |
| 13 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seated | obl |
| 14 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 carriage | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 vain | case |
| 16 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 trying | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 look | mark |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 vain | xcomp |
| 19 | dignified | dignify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 look | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | courtiers = courtier | the Duchess Grumbly | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grumbly=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | seat | past · passive | Grumbly | a open carriage | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in carriage=Location | ||||
| 3 | try | gerund | a open carriage not said here | vain | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vain=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | a open carriage not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | dignify | participle | a open carriage not said here | tree 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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