The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 71
The ladies-in-waiting danced and clapped their hands.
Who acts: ladies · What happens: dance, clap · To what, where: waiting, hands
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies), 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 ladies | det |
| 2 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 danced | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 danced | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 waiting | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 in | punct |
| 6 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 danced | obl |
| 7 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 clapped | cc |
| 9 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 danced | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 clapped | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | the ladies | waiting | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in waiting=Location | ||||
| 2 | clap | past | the ladies not said here | ladies's hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=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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