The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 59
“Have you lost the eye, sister? have you lost the eye?” said the third gray woman; “shall we _never_ find it again, and see old times coming back?”
Who acts: you, third gray woman, we, old times · What happens: lose, have, say, not find, see, come back · To what, where: eye, ice · 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 (you, third gray woman, we, old times), 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 | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eye | det |
| 6 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sister | punct |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eye | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | parataxis |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 lost | nsubj |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eye | det |
| 14 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 19 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 woman | amod |
| 20 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 woman | amod |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 find | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 find | punct |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 find | aux |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 find | nsubj |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 we | punct |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 29 find | advmod |
| 28 | _ | _ | PART | _ | 29 find | mark |
| 29 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 find | obj |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 29 find | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 see | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 see | cc |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 find | conj |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 times | amod |
| 36 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 see | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 times | acl |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 37 coming | advmod |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 find | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose in a quote | present | you | the eye and sister | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | past | you | the eye | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | the third gray woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not find in a quote | shall | we | ice | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 6 | see in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | come back in a quote | gerund | old times not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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