The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 66
The ball came to an end at midnight, and early next morning the Prince again led the Mother Dragon’s mare out into the meadow.
Who acts: ball, Prince · What happens: come, lead · To what, where: end, mare, meadow
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 (ball, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ball | det |
| 2 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 midnight | case |
| 8 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 led | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 led | cc |
| 11 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 morning | advmod |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 morning | amod |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Prince | det |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 led | nsubj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 led | advmod |
| 17 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Dragon | det |
| 19 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Dragon | compound |
| 20 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 mare | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Dragon | case |
| 22 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 mare | advmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 meadow | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 meadow | det |
| 26 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the ball | to a end; midnight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | the Prince | the Mother Dragon's mare | the meadow | again; morning | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mare=Theme into meadow=Destination |
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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