The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 20
There he saw a deer’s foot hanging by a chain of diamonds, and he began to wonder who could live in this magnificent castle.
Who acts: two, foot · What happens: see, hang, begin, wonder, live · To what, where: foot, magnificent castle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (two, foot), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 deer | det |
| 5 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 foot | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 deer | case |
| 7 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 8 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 foot | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 chain | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 chain | det |
| 11 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hanging | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 diamonds | case |
| 13 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 chain | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 began | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 began | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 began | nsubj |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 wonder | mark |
| 19 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 live | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 live | aux |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wonder | ccomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 castle | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 castle | det |
| 25 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 castle | amod |
| 26 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 live | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | two | a deer's foot | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | hang | gerund | a deer's foot not said here | by a chain of diamonds | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by chain=Location | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | two | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | to-infinitive | two not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | live | could | this magnificent castle | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location |
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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