The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 105
And the stone beast is there on the sea-coast to this day.
Who acts: stone beast · What happens: be · To what, where: sea coast
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 (stone beast), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 there | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beast | det |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beast | compound |
| 4 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 there | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 coast | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 coast | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coast | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sea | punct |
| 11 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 there | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 there | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the stone beast | the sea coast | day | there property | tree rules |
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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