The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 10
So the Princess and the baby floated and drifted in the chest on the sea all day and night, but the baby was not afraid of the waves nor of the wind, for he did not know that they could hurt him, and he slept quite soundly.
Who acts: Princess, baby, child · What happens: float, drift, not be, not know, hurt, sleep · To what, where: chest, child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, baby, child), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 floated | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 floated | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 baby | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 baby | det |
| 6 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Princess | conj |
| 7 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drifted | cc |
| 9 | drifted | drift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 floated | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 chest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chest | det |
| 12 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 floated | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chest | nmod |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 floated | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 night | cc |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 day | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 afraid | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 afraid | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 baby | det |
| 23 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 afraid | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 afraid | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 afraid | advmod |
| 26 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 floated | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 waves | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 waves | det |
| 29 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 afraid | obl |
| 30 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 33 wind | cc |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 wind | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 wind | det |
| 33 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 waves | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 know | punct |
| 35 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 39 know | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 know | nsubj |
| 37 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 know | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 know | advmod |
| 39 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 afraid | conj |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 hurt | mark |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 hurt | nsubj |
| 42 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 hurt | aux |
| 43 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 know | ccomp |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 hurt | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 slept | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 slept | cc |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 slept | nsubj |
| 48 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 floated | parataxis |
| 49 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 50 soundly | advmod |
| 50 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 48 slept | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 floated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | participle | the Princess and the baby | the chest on the sea | day | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chest=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | drift | participle | the Princess and the baby not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | the baby | of the waves nor the wind; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | hurt | could | baby | child | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient | ||||
| 6 | sleep | past | child | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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