The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 88
She were soon delivered were the matter only laid before the old wizard of Finland.”
What happens: deliver, lay · To what, where: thrush, matter
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delivered | aux:pass |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 delivered | advmod |
| 4 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 laid | advcl |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 laid | aux:pass |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 matter | det |
| 7 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 laid | advmod |
| 9 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 wizard | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wizard | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wizard | amod |
| 13 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Finland | case |
| 15 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wizard | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 laid | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | past · passive | thrush | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lay | past · passive | the matter | before the old wizard of Finland | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before wizard=Destination |
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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