The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 107
But the lady-in-waiting slipped on india-rubber shoes and followed them.
What happens: wait, slip, follow · To what, where: rubber shoes, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 lady | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 in | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 lady | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 in | punct |
| 7 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 in | xcomp |
| 8 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 waiting | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 shoes | case |
| 10 | india | india | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rubber | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 india | punct |
| 12 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shoes | compound |
| 13 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 slipped | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 followed | cc |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 slipped | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 followed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | slip | participle | rubber shoes | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | follow | past | Princess | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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