The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 40
But there are ways which they do not know, roads beyond the borders of the world.
Who acts: ways, shoes · What happens: be, not know · To what, where: ways
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 (ways, shoes), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 are | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 are | nsubj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 know | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 know | advmod |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ways | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 roads | punct |
| 11 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ways | conj |
| 12 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 14 borders | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 borders | det |
| 14 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 roads | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 borders | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | ways and roads beyond the borders of the world | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | shoes = shoe | ways and roads beyond the borders of the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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