The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 219
It is the talisman!” they cried joyfully, and, getting into their boat again, they soon reached the mouse island.
Who acts: boat, mice · What happens: be, cry, get, reach · To what, where: talisman, boat, mouse island · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boat, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 talisman | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 talisman | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 talisman | det |
| 4 | talisman | talisman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 talisman | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 talisman | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 8 cried | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 getting | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 getting | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 getting | punct |
| 13 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cried | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 boat | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 boat | nmod:poss |
| 16 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 getting | obl |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 getting | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reached | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reached | nsubj |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 reached | advmod |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 island | det |
| 23 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 island | compound |
| 24 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | boat | the talisman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | mice = mouse | joyfully property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | gerund | mice = mouse not said here | mice's boat | again | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination | |||
| 4 | reach in a quote | past | mice = mouse | the mouse island | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent island=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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