English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 34
The prince entered a magnificent hall, brightly lighted up, and many beautiful fairies surrounded the prince and led him off to the dance.
Who acts: prince · What happens: enter, light up, surround, lead off · To what, where: magnificent hall, many beautiful fairies, prince, dance
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 5 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hall | amod |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lighted | punct |
| 8 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 9 lighted | advmod |
| 9 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 entered | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 lighted | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 surrounded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 surrounded | cc |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fairies | amod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fairies | amod |
| 15 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 entered | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prince | det |
| 18 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 surrounded | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 led | cc |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 surrounded | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 led | obj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 led | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 dance | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dance | det |
| 25 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 led | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the prince | a magnificent hall | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination | ||||
| 2 | light up | participle | the prince not said here | brightly property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle · passive | many beautiful fairies | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lead off | past | prince | the dance | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to dance=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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