The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 69
There he alighted, and there he found the Three Fairies of the Garden.
Who acts: boy · What happens: alight, find · To what, where: Three Fairies
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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 alighted | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 alighted | nsubj |
| 3 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 found | expl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 alighted | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fairies | det |
| 10 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Fairies | nummod |
| 11 | Fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 found | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Garden | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Garden | det |
| 14 | Garden | Garden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Fairies | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 alighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alight | participle | boy | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past | boy | the Three Fairies of the Garden | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=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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