The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 194
When they reached the capital they landed and ran to the palace, leaving only the blind mouse on the shore to take care of the boat.
Who acts: mice · What happens: reach, land, run, leave, take · To what, where: capital, blind mouse, shore, care
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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 landed | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 capital | det |
| 5 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 landed | nsubj |
| 7 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 landed | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leaving | punct |
| 14 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ran | advcl |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 mouse | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mouse | det |
| 17 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mouse | amod |
| 18 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaving | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 shore | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 shore | det |
| 21 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaving | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 take | mark |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 leaving | advcl |
| 24 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 boat | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 boat | det |
| 27 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | mice = mouse | the capital | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent capital=Theme | ||||
| 2 | land | past | mice = mouse | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | past | mice = mouse not said here | to the palace result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result | ||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | mice = mouse not said here | the blind mouse | the shore | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme on shore=Location | |||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | mice = mouse not said here | care | of the boat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of boat=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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