The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 88
There I grew up surrounded with everything that was beautiful and rare, and learning everything that is ever taught to a princess, but without any companions but a parrot and a little dog, who could both talk; and receiving every day a visit from one of the old fairies, who came mounted upon the dragon.
Who acts: I, little dog · What happens: grow up, surround, be, learn, teach, talk · To what, where: everything, princess, visit, old fairies
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 (I, little dog), 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 grew | expl |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grew | compound:prt |
| 5 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 grew | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 everything | case |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 beautiful | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 beautiful | cop |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 everything | acl:relcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rare | cc |
| 12 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beautiful | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 learning | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 learning | cc |
| 15 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 grew | advcl |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 learning | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 taught | aux:pass |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 taught | advmod |
| 20 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 everything | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 princess | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 princess | det |
| 23 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taught | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 companions | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 companions | cc |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 28 companions | case |
| 27 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 companions | det |
| 28 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grew | obl |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 parrot | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 parrot | det |
| 31 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 companions | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 dog | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 dog | det |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 dog | amod |
| 35 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 companions | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 talk | punct |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 talk | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 talk | aux |
| 39 | both | both | ADV | _ | 40 talk | advmod |
| 40 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 dog | acl:relcl |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 receiving | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 receiving | cc |
| 43 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 grew | advcl |
| 44 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 day | det |
| 45 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 receiving | obj |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 visit | det |
| 47 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 receiving | obj |
| 48 | from | from | ADP | _ | 49 one | case |
| 49 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 receiving | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 fairies | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 fairies | det |
| 52 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 fairies | amod |
| 53 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 one | nmod |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 mounted | punct |
| 55 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 57 mounted | nsubj |
| 56 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 mounted | aux:pass |
| 57 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 53 fairies | acl:relcl |
| 58 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 60 dragon | case |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 dragon | det |
| 60 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 mounted | obl |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | I | there | without any companions but a parrot and a little dog | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | surround | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | beautiful property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 5 | learn | gerund | I not said here | everything | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | ||||
| 6 | teach speech: other | present · passive | a princess | ever | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to princess=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | talk | could | a little dog | both property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | receive | gerund | I not said here | a visit | day | from one of the old fairies | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent visit=Theme from one=Source | ||
| 9 | mount | past · passive | the old fairies | upon the dragon | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon dragon=Destination |
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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