The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 78
The Mice courteously assented, and after many polite speeches the whole party fell asleep.
Who acts: Mice, whole party · What happens: assent, fall
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (Mice, whole party), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mice | det |
| 2 | Mice | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 assented | nsubj |
| 3 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 4 assented | advmod |
| 4 | assented | assent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fell | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fell | cc |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 speeches | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 speeches | amod |
| 9 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 speeches | amod |
| 10 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fell | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 party | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 party | amod |
| 13 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 assented | conj |
| 15 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fell | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 assented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assent | participle | the Mice | courteously property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the whole party | after many polite speeches | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «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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