The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 25
With his hand on his sword, to be prepared for whatever might happen, he entered a hall paved with lapis-lazuli, while two lovely voices sang:
Who acts: two, whatever, two lovely voices · What happens: be, happen, enter, pave, sing · To what, where: hall
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, whatever, two lovely voices), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 hand | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hand | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 entered | obl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 sword | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sword | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hand | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 prepared | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 prepared | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 prepared | cop |
| 10 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sword | acl:relcl |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 happen | mark |
| 12 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 happen | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 happen | aux |
| 14 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 prepared | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hand | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 entered | nsubj |
| 17 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hall | det |
| 19 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 entered | obj |
| 20 | paved | pave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 hall | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 lazuli | case |
| 22 | lapis | lapis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lazuli | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 lapis | punct |
| 24 | lazuli | lazuli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 paved | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sang | punct |
| 26 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 sang | mark |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 voices | nummod |
| 28 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 voices | amod |
| 29 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 sang | nsubj |
| 30 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 entered | conj |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | two not said here | prepared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | might | whatever | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | enter | past | two | a hall | with two's hand on two's sword | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination | |||
| 4 | pave | participle | a hall not said here | with lapis lazuli | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lazuli=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | past | two lovely voices | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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