The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 58
A messenger was at once sent to Finland, and a week later the old wizard himself arrived on the wings of the wind.
Who acts: old wizard · What happens: send, arrive · To what, where: messenger, Finland, wings
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 (old wizard), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 messenger | det |
| 2 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | aux:pass |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 sent | obl |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Finland | case |
| 8 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 arrived | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 arrived | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 week | det |
| 12 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 later | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 arrived | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wizard | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wizard | amod |
| 16 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arrived | nsubj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 16 wizard | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 wings | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wings | det |
| 21 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 arrived | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 wind | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wind | det |
| 24 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wings | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | a messenger | Finland | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to finland=Destination | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | the old wizard wizard | the wings of the wind | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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