The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 61
On the way they had to pass near an old castle belonging to the fairies.
Who acts: tales, old castle · What happens: have, pass, belong · To what, where: way, old castle
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tales, old castle), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pass | mark |
| 7 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 castle | amod |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pass | obl |
| 12 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 castle | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 fairies | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fairies | det |
| 15 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 belonging | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | tales = tale | the way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | tales = tale not said here | a old castle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near castle=Location | ||||
| 3 | belong | gerund | a old castle not said here | to the fairies | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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