The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 66
But when the dance was ended, she disappeared again so quickly that the King could not see which way she went.
Who acts: dance, King · What happens: be, disappear, not see, go · To what, where: way
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, King), 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 | _ | 9 disappeared | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 ended | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dance | det |
| 4 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ended | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ended | cop |
| 6 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 disappeared | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ended | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 disappeared | nsubj |
| 9 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 disappeared | advmod |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 quickly | advmod |
| 12 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 disappeared | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 see | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 see | advmod |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 disappeared | advcl |
| 19 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 way | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 disappeared | 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 | disappear | past | dance | again | quickly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | not see | could | the King | which way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | go | past | dance | which way not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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 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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