The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 57
“Where is the eye, sister?” said the second gray woman.
Who acts: second gray woman · What happens: be, say · To what, where: 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 (second gray woman), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 eye | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 eye | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eye | det |
| 5 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sister | punct |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eye | appos |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 sister | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 eye | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 woman | amod |
| 13 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the eye | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the second gray woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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