The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 52

But, floating on the Shoes of Swiftness, the boy just managed to steal in, and waited till one of the sisters said to another, who had their one eye:

Who acts: boy · What happens: float, manage, steal in, wait, say, have · To what, where: Shoes, another, one eye · Speech: someone speaks here

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 waited	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 floating	punct
3	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 waited	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 Shoes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Shoes	det
6	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 floating	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Swiftness	case
8	Swiftness	Swiftness	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Shoes	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 boy	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Swiftness	appos
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 managed	advmod
13	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 boy	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 steal	mark
15	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 managed	xcomp
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 steal	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 waited	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 waited	cc
19	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	till	till	ADP	_	21 one	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 said	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 sisters	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sisters	det
24	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 said	obl
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 waited	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 another	case
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 said	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	conj
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 eye	nmod:poss
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 eye	nummod
33	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	gerund				the Shoes of Swiftness			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoe=Trajectory
2	manage	past	the boy not said here						vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	steal in	to-infinitive	the boy not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wait	past							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past			another		till one	of the sisters	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to another=Recipient
6	have	past		sisters's one eye					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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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