The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 46
Accordingly, she collected nine different kinds of enchanters’ nightshade, added some salt, which she first bewitched, and, doing all up in a cloth into the shape of a fluffy ball, sent it after them on the wings of the wind, saying:
Who acts: sun · What happens: collect, add, bewitch, do, send, say · To what, where: nine different kinds, salt, cloth, wings · 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 (sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 4 collected | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Accordingly | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 collected | nsubj |
| 4 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 kinds | nummod |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kinds | amod |
| 7 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 collected | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 nightshade | case |
| 9 | enchanters | enchanter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 nightshade | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 9 enchanters | case |
| 11 | nightshade | nightshade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kinds | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 added | punct |
| 13 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 collected | conj |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 salt | det |
| 15 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 added | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bewitched | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 bewitched | obj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bewitched | nsubj |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 bewitched | advmod |
| 20 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 salt | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 sent | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 sent | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 and | punct |
| 24 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 sent | advcl |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 up | advmod |
| 26 | up | up | ADV | _ | 24 doing | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 cloth | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 cloth | det |
| 29 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 doing | obl |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 shape | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 shape | det |
| 32 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 doing | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 ball | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 ball | det |
| 35 | fluffy | fluffy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 ball | amod |
| 36 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shape | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 doing | punct |
| 38 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 collected | conj |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 sent | obj |
| 40 | after | after | ADP | _ | 41 them | case |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 sent | obl |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 wings | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 wings | det |
| 44 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 sent | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 wind | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 wind | det |
| 47 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 wings | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 saying | punct |
| 49 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 collected | advcl |
| 50 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past | sun | nine different kinds of enchanters's nightshade | accordingly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | sun not said here | some salt | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bewitch | past | sun | some salt | first property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | do | gerund | a cloth | into the shape of a fluffy ball | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | send | past | sun not said here | salt | the wings of the wind | after enchanters = enchanter | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | sun not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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