The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 80
St. Nicholas will be at the helm.
Who acts: Nicholas · What happens: be · To what, where: helm
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 (Nicholas), 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 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 helm | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 helm | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 helm | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 helm | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 helm | det |
| 7 | helm | helm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 helm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | Nicholas St. | the helm | 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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