The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 61
She gave him at the same time a cloak made of copper, and led him to a big room where several young he-dragons and she-dragons were dancing together.
Who acts: mare, Prince · What happens: give, make, lead, dragon, dance · To what, where: Prince, cloak, big room
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mare, Prince), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cloak | det |
| 9 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cloak | acl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 copper | case |
| 12 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 led | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 led | cc |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 led | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 room | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 room | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 room | amod |
| 20 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 dragons | advmod |
| 22 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 dragons | amod |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 dragons | amod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 dragons | nsubj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 he | punct |
| 26 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 room | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 dancing | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 dancing | nsubj |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 she | punct |
| 30 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 she | conj |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 dancing | aux |
| 32 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 led | conj |
| 33 | together | together | ADV | _ | 32 dancing | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | mare | Prince | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | participle | a cloak not said here | of copper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | Prince | a big room | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to room=Destination | ||||
| 4 | dragon | Prince | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | dance | past · progressive | mare | together property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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