The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 64
A year afterward he came suddenly upon the bridge where his beloved met her death.
Who acts: King, bridge · What happens: come, belov, meet, die · To what, where: death
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 (King, bridge), 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 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 bridge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bridge | det |
| 9 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 met | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 beloved | advmod |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 beloved | nmod:poss |
| 12 | beloved | belov | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bridge | acl:relcl |
| 13 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 death | nmod:poss |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 met | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | King | year | afterward, suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | belov | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | meet | past | King not said here | bridge's death | upon the bridge | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | die | bridge | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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