The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 51
Now the opening of the cave in the ice was narrow, and it was not easy to pass in without touching one of the Gray Sisters.
Who acts: opening · What happens: be, not be, pass in, touch · To what, where: one
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 (opening), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 narrow | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 opening | det |
| 3 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 narrow | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cave | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cave | det |
| 6 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opening | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 ice | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ice | det |
| 9 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cave | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 narrow | cop |
| 11 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 easy | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 easy | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 easy | expl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 easy | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 easy | advmod |
| 17 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 narrow | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 pass | mark |
| 19 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 easy | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 pass | compound:prt |
| 21 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 22 touching | mark |
| 22 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 pass | advcl |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 touching | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Sisters | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Sisters | det |
| 26 | Gray | Gray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Sisters | amod |
| 27 | Sisters | Sister | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 one | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 narrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the opening of the cave in the ice | now | narrow property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is | past | the opening of the cave in the ice not said here | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pass in | to-infinitive | the opening of the cave in the ice not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | touch | gerund | the opening of the cave in the ice not said here | one of the Gray Sisters | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme |
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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