The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 84
As soon as he caught sight of the three from far off he took his shining shield from his shoulders, and held it up like a mirror, so that he saw the Dreadful Women reflected in it, and did not see the Terrible Head itself.
Who acts: boy, Dreadful Women · What happens: catch, take, shine, hold up, see, reflect · To what, where: sight, shining shield, shoulders, shield, mirror, Terrible Head · 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 (boy, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 caught | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 caught | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caught | nsubj |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 three | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 three | det |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 sight | nmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 far | case |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 caught | obl |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 took | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shield | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 shield | amod |
| 17 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 shoulders | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 20 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 held | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 held | cc |
| 23 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 held | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 held | compound:prt |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 mirror | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 mirror | det |
| 28 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 held | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 saw | punct |
| 30 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 33 saw | mark |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 so | fixed |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 saw | nsubj |
| 33 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Women | det |
| 35 | Dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Women | amod |
| 36 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 reflected | nsubj |
| 37 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 saw | ccomp |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 reflected | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 see | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 see | cc |
| 42 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 see | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 see | advmod |
| 44 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 saw | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Head | det |
| 46 | Terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Head | amod |
| 47 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 see | obj |
| 48 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 47 Head | nmod:unmarked |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | boy | sight of the three | soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sight=Theme from far=Source | |||
| 2 | take | past | boy | boy's shining shield | boy's shoulders | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent shield=Theme from shoulder=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | hold up | past | boy not said here | shield | like a mirror | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 5 | see | past | boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | reflect | past | the Dreadful Women | mirror | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | not see | past · do-support | boy not said here | the Terrible Head Head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus |
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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