The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 71
THE SONG OF THE WESTERN FAIRIES
Who acts: WESTERN FAIRIES · What happens: sing
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 (WESTERN FAIRIES), 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 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 SONG | det |
| 2 | SONG | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 6 FAIRIES | case |
| 4 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 FAIRIES | det |
| 5 | WESTERN | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 FAIRIES | amod |
| 6 | FAIRIES | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 SONG | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing | the WESTERN FAIRIES | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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