The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 216

The blind mouse was speedily deserted by her two sisters, who went off to hunt flies, but as she wandered sadly along the shore she found a dead fish, and was eating it, when she felt something very hard.

Who acts: two sisters, sea · What happens: desert, go off, hunt, wander, find, eat · To what, where: blind mouse, flies, shore, dead fish, something

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 (two sisters, sea), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
2	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mouse	amod
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deserted	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 deserted	aux:pass
5	speedily	speedily	ADV	_	6 deserted	advmod
6	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 sisters	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sisters	nmod:poss
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 sisters	nummod
10	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deserted	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sisters	acl:relcl
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 went	compound:prt
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hunt	mark
16	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 went	xcomp
17	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hunt	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wandered	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 wandered	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 wandered	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wandered	nsubj
22	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 deserted	conj
23	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	22 wandered	advmod
24	along	along	ADP	_	26 shore	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 shore	det
26	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wandered	obl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 found	nsubj
28	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 shore	acl:relcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 fish	det
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fish	amod
31	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 found	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 eating	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 eating	cc
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 eating	aux
35	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 wandered	advcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 eating	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 felt	punct
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 felt	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 felt	nsubj
40	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 wandered	conj
41	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	40 felt	obj
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 hard	advmod
43	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 felt	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 deserted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	desert	past · passive	sea's two sisters	the blind mouse		speedily property	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme subject=Source
2	go off	past	sea's two sisters				tree rules
3	hunt	to-infinitive	sea's two sisters not said here	flies			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme
4	wander	past	sea		the shore	sadly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along shore=Trajectory
5	find	past	sea	a dead fish			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic
6	eat	past · progressive	sea not said here	shore			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	feel	past	sea	something		hard property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme

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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