The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 62
Here am I imprisoned under the earth, with no company but sheep and shadows, while my sister is to be adorned like a queen and surrounded by all who love and admire her, and everyone but myself can go to wish her joy!”
Who acts: everyone, sister · What happens: imprison, adorn, surround, love, admire, go · To what, where: I, earth, sister, joy
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 (everyone, sister), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 imprisoned | advmod |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 imprisoned | aux:pass |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 imprisoned | nsubj |
| 4 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 go | advcl |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 earth | det |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 imprisoned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 company | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 company | case |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 company | det |
| 11 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 imprisoned | parataxis |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 sheep | cc |
| 13 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 company | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shadows | cc |
| 15 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sheep | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 adorned | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 adorned | mark |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sister | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 adorned | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 adorned | aux |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 adorned | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 adorned | aux:pass |
| 23 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 imprisoned | conj |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 queen | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 queen | det |
| 26 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 adorned | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 surrounded | cc |
| 28 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 adorned | conj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 all | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 love | nsubj |
| 32 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 all | acl:relcl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 admire | cc |
| 34 | admire | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 love | conj |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 admire | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 go | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 go | cc |
| 38 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 42 go | nsubj |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 myself | cc |
| 40 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 everyone | conj |
| 41 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 go | aux |
| 42 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 wish | mark |
| 44 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 go | xcomp |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 joy | nmod:poss |
| 46 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 wish | obj |
| 47 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 42 go | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imprison | present · passive | I | the earth; here | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under earth=Destination | ||||
| 2 | adorn | present · passive | my sister | like a queen | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | love | present | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | admire | infinitive | sister | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | go | can | everyone | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | wish | to-infinitive | everyone not said here | sister's joy | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot joy=Theme | ||||
| 8 | joy | sister | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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