The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 118
But when they came to the bridge where he had left his horse it was nowhere to be seen, for, though the Prince thought he had been a crab only a few hours, he had in reality been under the water for more than ten days.
Who acts: maidens, prince, reality · What happens: come, leave, see for, think, be, have · To what, where: bridge, horse, power, crab, water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens, prince, reality), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 had | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 had | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bridge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bridge | det |
| 7 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 left | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 left | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | aux |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 bridge | acl:relcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 horse | nmod:poss |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux:pass |
| 16 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 seen | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 seen | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 seen | aux:pass |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 left | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 for | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 seen | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thought | punct |
| 23 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 26 thought | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Prince | det |
| 25 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 thought | nsubj |
| 26 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | advcl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 crab | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 crab | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 crab | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 crab | det |
| 31 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thought | ccomp |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 35 hours | advmod |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 hours | det |
| 34 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 hours | amod |
| 35 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 crab | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 had | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 water | case |
| 40 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 water | nsubj |
| 41 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 water | cop |
| 42 | under | under | ADP | _ | 44 water | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 water | det |
| 44 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 had | obl |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 days | case |
| 46 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 48 ten | advmod |
| 47 | than | than | ADP | _ | 46 more | fixed |
| 48 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 49 days | nummod |
| 49 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 had | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | maidens = maiden | the bridge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bridge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | prince | prince's horse | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see for | past · passive | power | nowhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | the Prince | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past · perfect | prince | a crab | hour | tree rules | |||
| 6 | have | past | prince | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is | participle | reality | the water | tree rules |
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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