The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 85

Percinet and the Princess looked at one another, but said never a word, and then he did as the King commanded, and the procession started in great pomp.

Who acts: Percinet, horse, King, procession · What happens: look, say, do, command, start · To what, where: word, great pomp · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Percinet, horse, King, procession), 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	Percinet	Percinet	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 looked	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Princess	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Percinet	conj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 looked	obl
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 one	fixed
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	parataxis
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 word	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 word	det
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 did	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 did	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 did	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 did	nsubj
19	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 commanded	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 King	det
22	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 commanded	nsubj
23	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 did	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 started	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 started	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 procession	det
27	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 started	nsubj
28	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 pomp	case
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 pomp	amod
31	pomp	pomp	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 started	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Percinet and the Princess				at one	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		a word				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	do	past	horse			then		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	command	past	the King					vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent
5	start	past	the procession		great pomp			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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