The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 187
One was blind, the second lame, and the third had her ears cropped.
Who acts: One, third, ears · What happens: be, have, crop
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 (One, third, ears), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 blind | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blind | cop |
| 3 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lame | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lame | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 lame | amod |
| 7 | lame | lame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blind | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 third | det |
| 11 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blind | parataxis |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ears | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cropped | nsubj |
| 15 | cropped | crop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One | the second lame obl; blind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the third | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | crop | past | third's ears | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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