The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 4
As she spoke a band of lovely fairies came up and offered her amber baskets full of fruit, but when she held out her hands to them they glided away, and she could feel nothing when she tried to touch them.
Who acts: Princess, hands · What happens: speak, come up, offer, hold out, glide away, feel · To what, where: band, amber baskets, hands, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, hands), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 band | det |
| 5 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fairies | case |
| 7 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fairies | amod |
| 8 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 band | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 offered | cc |
| 12 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 baskets | nmod:poss |
| 14 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 baskets | compound |
| 15 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 offered | obj |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 baskets | amod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fruit | case |
| 18 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 full | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 glided | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 glided | cc |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 held | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 held | nsubj |
| 23 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 glided | advcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 held | compound:prt |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hands | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 held | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 held | obl |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 glided | nsubj |
| 30 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | parataxis |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 glided | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 feel | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 feel | cc |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 feel | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 feel | aux |
| 36 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 glided | conj |
| 37 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 36 feel | obj |
| 38 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 tried | advmod |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 tried | nsubj |
| 40 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 feel | advcl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 touch | mark |
| 42 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 tried | xcomp |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 touch | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Princess | a band of lovely fairies | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | offer | past | Princess's amber baskets | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hold out | past | Princess | Princess's hands | hands = hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 5 | glide away | past | hands = hand | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | feel | could | Princess | nothing | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 7 | try | past | Princess | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | touch not said to happen | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | hands = hand | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme |
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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