The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 65

Now the Dreadful Women were akin to the Three Gray Sisters, and it was hard for them to tell the boy the way.

Who acts: Dreadful Women · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: way, boy · 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 (Dreadful Women), 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	6 akin	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Women	det
3	Dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Women	amod
4	Women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 akin	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 akin	cop
6	akin	akin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 Sisters	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sisters	det
9	Three	Three	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Sisters	compound
10	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Sisters	amod
11	Sisters	Sister	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 akin	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hard	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hard	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hard	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hard	cop
16	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 akin	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hard	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 tell	mark
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hard	csubj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boy	det
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	obj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 way	det
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 akin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Dreadful Women			now	to the Three Gray Sisters; akin property	tree rules
2	is	past	the Dreadful Women not said here				for women = woman; hard property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		the way	the boy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient way=Topic

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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