The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 185
She held a new council, calling in mice from every quarter of the globe, but nobody knew where the bronze ring was.
Who acts: queen, nobody, bronze ring · What happens: hold, call, know, be · To what, where: new council, quarter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, nobody, bronze ring), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 council | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 council | amod |
| 5 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 calling | punct |
| 7 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 held | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mice | case |
| 9 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 calling | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 quarter | case |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 quarter | det |
| 12 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 calling | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 globe | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 globe | det |
| 15 | globe | globe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 quarter | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knew | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 knew | cc |
| 18 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 knew | nsubj |
| 19 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | parataxis |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 knew | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ring | det |
| 22 | bronze | bronze | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ring | amod |
| 23 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 where | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 where | cop |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | queen | a new council | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | gerund | queen not said here | every quarter of the globe | in mice | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from quarter=Source | |||
| 3 | know | past | nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the bronze ring | where property | tree rules |
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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