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The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 92

But as he looked down from the air he saw a very strange sight--a beautiful girl chained to a stake at the high-water mark of the sea.

Who acts: boy · What happens: look down, see, chain, mark · To what, where: strange sight, beautiful girl, water mark, sea

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

ccmarknsubjadvcladvmodcasedetoblnsubjdetadvmodamodobjpunctdetamodapposaclcasedetoblcasedetamodpunctcompoundoblcasedetnmodpunctrootButCCONJasSCONJhePRONlookedVERBdownADVfromADPtheDETairNOUNhePRONsawVERBaDETveryADVstrangeADJsightNOUN--PUNCTaDETbeautifulADJgirlNOUNchainedVERBtoADPaDETstakeNOUNatADPtheDEThighADJ-PUNCTwaterNOUNmarkNOUNofADPtheDETseaNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_10 sawcc
2asasSCONJ_4 lookedmark
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 lookednsubj
4lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 sawadvcl
5downdownADV_4 lookedadvmod
6fromfromADP_8 aircase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 airdet
8airairNOUNNumber=Sing4 lookedobl
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 sawnsubj
10sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 sightdet
12veryveryADV_13 strangeadvmod
13strangestrangeADJDegree=Pos14 sightamod
14sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing10 sawobj
15----PUNCT_18 girlpunct
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 girldet
17beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos18 girlamod
18girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing14 sightappos
19chainedchainVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 girlacl
20totoADP_22 stakecase
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 stakedet
22stakestakeNOUNNumber=Sing19 chainedobl
23atatADP_28 markcase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 markdet
25highhighADJDegree=Pos27 wateramod
26--PUNCT_25 highpunct
27waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing28 markcompound
28markmarkNOUNNumber=Sing19 chainedobl
29ofofADP_31 seacase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 seadet
31seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing28 marknmod
32..PUNCT_10 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1look downpastboyfrom the air; down propertyvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from air=Theme
2seepastboya strange sightvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus
3chainparticiplea beautiful girl not said herethe water mark of the seato a stakevn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to stake=Co-Patient
4markthe seanom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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