The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 211
And from high words they soon came to blows, and, alas! when the quarrel was fiercest the bronze ring fell into the sea.
Who acts: words, alas · What happens: come, be, fall · To what, where: high words, sea
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 (words, alas), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 came | advmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 blows | case |
| 9 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fell | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 alas | punct |
| 13 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 alas | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 fell | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 quarrel | det |
| 17 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fiercest | cop |
| 19 | fiercest | fierce | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 fell | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ring | det |
| 21 | bronze | bronze | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ring | amod |
| 22 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fell | nsubj |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 sea | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sea | det |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fell | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | words = word | high words | to blows; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from word=Initial_Location to blow=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | fierce property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | alas | into the sea result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result |
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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