The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 124
Some time afterward the Prince and his bride were sitting in the garden, when a crow said to them: “Ungrateful creatures!
What happens: sit, say · To what, where: crow, garden, maidens · 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: 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sitting | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | afterward | afterward | ADP | _ | 5 Prince | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 time | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bride | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bride | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Prince | conj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sitting | aux |
| 10 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sitting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crow | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 crow | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 crow | det |
| 17 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sitting | obl |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 crow | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 creatures | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 creatures | punct |
| 23 | Ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 creatures | amod |
| 24 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sitting | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | a crow | the garden | time | Ungrateful creatures obl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | participle | a crow not said here | maidens = maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
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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