The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 56
Then the first sister passed the eye to the second, but as the second groped for it the boy caught it cleverly out of her hand.
Who acts: first sister, boy · What happens: pass, grope, catch · To what, where: eye, second, ice, hand
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 (first sister, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 passed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sister | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 sister | amod |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eye | det |
| 7 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 second | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 second | det |
| 10 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 passed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 groped | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 groped | cc |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 second | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 second | det |
| 15 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 groped | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | groped | grope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 caught | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 groped | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boy | det |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 caught | nsubj |
| 21 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 caught | obj |
| 23 | cleverly | cleverly | ADV | _ | 21 caught | advmod |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 caught | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the first sister | the eye | the second | then | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent eye=Theme to second=Recipient | ||
| 2 | grope | participle | the boy not said here | as the second; for ice | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | the boy | ice | Swiftness's hand | cleverly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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