The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 109
For he could not carry his bride through the air, so he took the Shoes of Swiftness, and the Cap of Darkness, and the Sword of Sharpness up to a lonely place in the hills.
Who acts: boy · What happens: not carry, take up · To what, where: bride, air, Shoes, lonely place
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 (boy), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 carry | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 carry | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 carry | advmod |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bride | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obj |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 took | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carry | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Shoes | det |
| 16 | Shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Swiftness | case |
| 18 | Swiftness | swiftness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Shoes | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Cap | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Cap | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Cap | det |
| 22 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Darkness | case |
| 24 | Darkness | Darkness | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Cap | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Sword | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Sword | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Sword | det |
| 28 | Sword | Sword | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Sharpness | case |
| 30 | Sharpness | Sharpness | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Sword | nmod |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 took | compound:prt |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 place | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 place | det |
| 34 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 place | amod |
| 35 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 hills | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 hills | det |
| 38 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 place | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not carry | could | boy | boy's bride | the air | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme | |||
| 2 | take up | past | boy | the Shoes of Swiftness | a lonely place in the hills | the Cap of Darkness obl; the Sword of Sharpness obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme to place=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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