The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 204
A favoring breeze was carrying them toward the island where the queen of the mice was awaiting them.
Who acts: favoring breeze, queen · What happens: favor, carry, await · To what, where: mice
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 (favoring breeze, queen), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 breeze | det |
| 2 | favoring | favor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 breeze | amod |
| 3 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carrying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carrying | aux |
| 5 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carrying | obj |
| 7 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 9 island | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 island | det |
| 9 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carrying | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 awaiting | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 awaiting | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mice | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mice | det |
| 15 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 queen | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 awaiting | aux |
| 17 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 island | acl:relcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 awaiting | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carrying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | favor | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | carry | past · progressive | a favoring breeze | mice = mouse | toward the island | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | await | past · progressive | the queen of the mice | mice = mouse | 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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