The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 222
The next day she sent to inquire the names of all the people in the neighborhood, and had a long list of the most uncommon and extraordinary for the little man when he made his appearance.
Who acts: Queen, man · What happens: send, inquire, have, make, name · To what, where: names, long list, appearance, people
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 (Queen, man), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 inquire | mark |
| 7 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sent | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 names | det |
| 9 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 inquire | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 people | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 names | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 neighborhood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 neighborhood | det |
| 16 | neighborhood | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 people | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 list | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 list | amod |
| 22 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 uncommon | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 uncommon | det |
| 25 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 26 uncommon | advmod |
| 26 | uncommon | uncommon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 list | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 extraordinary | cc |
| 28 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 uncommon | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 man | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 man | det |
| 31 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 man | amod |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 extraordinary | obl |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 made | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 made | nsubj |
| 35 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 had | advcl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 37 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 made | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Queen | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | the names of all people in the neighborhood | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Queen not said here | a long list of the uncommon | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | past | man | man's appearance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Product | ||||
| 5 | name | all people in the neighborhood | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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