The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 49
There in a blue cave of the ice he found the Three Gray Sisters, the oldest of living things.
Who acts: man · What happens: find · To what, where: Three Gray Sisters
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 (man), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 cave | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cave | det |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cave | amod |
| 5 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 There | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ice | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ice | det |
| 8 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cave | nmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ice | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sisters | det |
| 12 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sisters | compound |
| 13 | Gray | Gray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sisters | amod |
| 14 | Sisters | Sister | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 found | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 oldest | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 oldest | det |
| 17 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 Sisters | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 things | case |
| 19 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 things | amod |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 oldest | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 There | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | man | the Three Gray Sisters | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/49/