The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 42
This he did, and she went back to Percinet, who was waiting for her, and they set out together for the palace.
Who acts: This, Graciosa, Percinet, shoes · What happens: do, go back, wait, set out · To what, where: Percinet
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Graciosa, Percinet, shoes), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Percinet | case |
| 10 | Percinet | Percinet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 waiting | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 waiting | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 waiting | aux |
| 14 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 Percinet | acl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 waiting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | nsubj |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 set | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 palace | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 palace | det |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go back | past | Graciosa | Percinet | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to percinet=Result | ||||
| 3 | wait | past · progressive | Percinet | for Graciosa | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | set out | past | shoes = shoe | for the palace; together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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