The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 40
When the dance was ended, she curtseyed to him, and when the King looked round she had disappeared, no one knew whither.
Who acts: dance, cook, King, one · What happens: be, curtsey, look, know · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dance, cook, King, one), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 ended | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dance | det |
| 3 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ended | cop |
| 5 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 curtseyed | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 curtseyed | nsubj |
| 8 | curtseyed | curtsey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ended | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 curtseyed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 looked | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 curtseyed | conj |
| 17 | round | round | ADP | _ | 20 disappeared | case |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 disappeared | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 disappeared | aux |
| 20 | disappeared | disappeared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 looked | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 knew | punct |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knew | nsubj |
| 24 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 looked | parataxis |
| 25 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 knew | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dance | ended property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | curtsey | past | cook | King | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | look | past | the King | round disappeared | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round disappeared=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | past | no one | whither property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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