The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 15
Then she took the King’s dagger, which was in a diamond sheath, and the Queen’s neck-handkerchief, and gave her hand to Fanfaronade, who carried a lantern, and they ran out together into the muddy street and down to the sea-shore.
Who acts: Princess, dagger, Fanfaronade · What happens: take, be, give, carry, run out · To what, where: dagger, diamond sheath, hand, Fanfaronade, lantern, muddy street
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (Princess, dagger, Fanfaronade), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dagger | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 King | case |
| 7 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sheath | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 sheath | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sheath | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sheath | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sheath | det |
| 13 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sheath | compound |
| 14 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dagger | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 handkerchief | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 handkerchief | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Queen | det |
| 18 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Queen | case |
| 20 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 handkerchief | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 neck | punct |
| 22 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gave | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gave | cc |
| 25 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gave | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Fanfaronade | case |
| 29 | Fanfaronade | Fanfaronade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 gave | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 carried | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 carried | nsubj |
| 32 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 Fanfaronade | acl:relcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 lantern | det |
| 34 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 carried | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 ran | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 ran | cc |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 ran | nsubj |
| 38 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 ran | compound:prt |
| 40 | together | together | ADV | _ | 38 ran | advmod |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 street | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 street | det |
| 43 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 street | amod |
| 44 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ran | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 shore | cc |
| 46 | down | down | ADV | _ | 51 shore | advmod |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 shore | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 shore | det |
| 49 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 shore | compound |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 sea | punct |
| 51 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 street | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Princess | the King's dagger and a diamond sheath | then | the Queen's neck handkerchief obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dagger=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | past | the King's dagger and a diamond sheath | a diamond sheath | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Princess not said here | Princess's hand | Fanfaronade | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to fanfaronade=Recipient | |||
| 4 | carry | past | Fanfaronade | a lantern | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme | ||||
| 5 | run out | past | dagger | into the muddy street and the sea shore result; together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into street=Result |
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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