The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 10
Each one took a different road, and the two eldest met with many adventures; but it is about the youngest that you are going to hear.
Who acts: one, two, road, you · What happens: take, meet, be, go, hear · To what, where: different road
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, two, road, you), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 road | amod |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 met | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 met | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 two | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 met | nsubj |
| 11 | eldest | eld | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 met | advmod |
| 12 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 adventures | case |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 adventures | amod |
| 15 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 met | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 youngest | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 youngest | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 youngest | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 youngest | cop |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 youngest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 youngest | det |
| 22 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 took | obj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 going | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 going | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 going | aux |
| 26 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 youngest | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 hear | mark |
| 28 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 going | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | each one | a different road | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | participle | the two | with many adventures; eld property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with adventure=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | road | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | present · progressive | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | hear | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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