The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 54
When they got near the palace the Prince made the sledge and themselves invisible, so the Princess got in unobserved, and ran up to the great hall where the King was sitting all by himself.
Who acts: people, Prince, Princess, King · What happens: get, make, get in, unobserv, run up, sit · To what, where: palace, sledge
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Prince, Princess, King), 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 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | advcl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sledge | det |
| 11 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 invisible | cc |
| 13 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 invisible | nsubj |
| 14 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 made | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 got | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | nsubj |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADV | _ | 19 got | advmod |
| 21 | unobserved | unobserv | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 got | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ran | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ran | cc |
| 24 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | conj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 ran | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 hall | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hall | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hall | amod |
| 29 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ran | obl |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 sitting | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 King | det |
| 32 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 sitting | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 sitting | aux |
| 34 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 hall | acl |
| 35 | all | all | ADV | _ | 34 sitting | advmod |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 himself | case |
| 37 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 sitting | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | people | the palace | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the Prince | the sledge | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sledge=Product | ||||
| 3 | get in | past | the Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | unobserv | participle | the Princess not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | run up | past | the Prince not said here | to the great hall result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hall=Result | ||||
| 6 | sit | past · progressive | the King | by palace; all property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by himself=Location |
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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