The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 66
So she ordered that they should bring ladders, and get over the wall into the garden; but though the wall did not look very high, and they tied the ladders together to make them very long, it was quite impossible to get to the top.
Who acts: Queen, fruits, wall · What happens: order, bring, get, not look, tie, make · To what, where: ladders, wall, fruits
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 (Queen, fruits, wall), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 bring | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bring | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 bring | aux |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | ccomp |
| 8 | ladders | ladder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bring | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 get | cc |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 bring | conj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 wall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wall | det |
| 14 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 garden | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 garden | det |
| 17 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 look | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 look | cc |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 25 look | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wall | det |
| 22 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 look | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 look | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 look | advmod |
| 25 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | conj |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 high | advmod |
| 27 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 look | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 tied | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 tied | cc |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 tied | nsubj |
| 31 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ladders | det |
| 33 | ladders | ladder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 tied | obj |
| 34 | together | together | ADV | _ | 31 tied | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 make | mark |
| 36 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 tied | advcl |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 make | obj |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 long | advmod |
| 39 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 make | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 impossible | punct |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 impossible | expl |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 impossible | cop |
| 43 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 44 impossible | advmod |
| 44 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ordered | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 get | mark |
| 46 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 impossible | csubj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 top | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 top | det |
| 49 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 get | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Queen | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring | should | fruits = fruit | ladders | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ladder=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | fruits = fruit not said here | the wall | into the garden | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over wall=Initial_Location into garden=Destination | |||
| 4 | not look | past · do-support | the wall | high property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | tie | past | fruits = fruit | the ladders | together property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Patient | |||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | fruits = fruit not said here | fruits = fruit | long property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 7 | is | past | Queen not said here | impossible property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | get | to-infinitive | to the top result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to top=Result |
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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