The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 144
When it got late, six big men came in carrying a coffin.
Who acts: shudder, six big men · What happens: get, come, carry · To what, where: coffin
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shudder, six big men), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | advcl |
| 4 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 6 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 men | nummod |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 carrying | mark |
| 11 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 coffin | det |
| 13 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carrying | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | shudder | late property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | come | past | six big men | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | six big men not said here | a coffin | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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