The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 46
But, behold! they had vanished, he knew not how or where!
Who acts: lady, boy · What happens: vanish, not know
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 (lady, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 vanished | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 vanished | punct |
| 3 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 7 vanished | discourse |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 behold | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 vanished | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 vanished | aux |
| 7 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 vanished | conj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 knew | advmod |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 knew | advmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 where | cc |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 how | conj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past · perfect | lady | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not know | past | boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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