The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 186
Suddenly three mice arrived from a very distant country.
Who acts: three mice · What happens: arrive · To what, where: distant country
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 (three mice), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 mice | nummod |
| 3 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 distant | advmod |
| 8 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 country | amod |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | three mice | a distant country | suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location |
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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