The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 35
The Captain of the Guard begged Miranda to come down into the garden where the King was enjoying the fresh air, and when they got there, he pretended to search for him, but as he was not to be found, he said:
Who acts: Captain, King, monkey · What happens: beg, come down, enjoy, get, pretend, search · To what, where: Miranda, garden, fresh air, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Captain, King, monkey), 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 Captain | det |
| 2 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Guard | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Guard | det |
| 5 | Guard | Guard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Captain | nmod |
| 6 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Miranda | Miranda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 begged | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 begged | xcomp |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 enjoying | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 enjoying | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 enjoying | aux |
| 18 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 garden | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 air | det |
| 20 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 air | amod |
| 21 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enjoying | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 pretended | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pretended | cc |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 got | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 got | nsubj |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 pretended | advcl |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 got | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 got | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 pretended | nsubj |
| 30 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 begged | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 search | mark |
| 32 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 pretended | xcomp |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 search | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 said | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 said | cc |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 found | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 found | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 found | aux:pass |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 found | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 found | mark |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 found | aux:pass |
| 43 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 said | advcl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 found | punct |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 said | nsubj |
| 46 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 begged | parataxis |
| 47 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 46 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the Captain of the Guard | Miranda | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent miranda=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come down not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Captain of the Guard not said here | the garden | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | enjoy | past · progressive | the King | the fresh air | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer air=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | get | past | monkey | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | pretend | past | king | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | search | to-infinitive | king not said here | for king | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not find | past · passive | king | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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