The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 55
As soon as the dwarf felt himself free he seized a bag full of gold which was hidden among the roots of the tree, lifted it up, and muttered aloud: “Curse these rude wretches, cutting off a piece of my splendid beard!”
Who acts: end, Curse · What happens: feel, seize, hide, lift up, mutter, wretch · To what, where: end, bag, gold, roots, piece · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, Curse), 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 | 6 felt | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 dwarf | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dwarf | det |
| 5 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 felt | obl |
| 6 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 felt | obj |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 felt | xcomp |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seized | nsubj |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 felt | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bag | det |
| 12 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obj |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bag | amod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 gold | case |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 full | obl |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hidden | aux:pass |
| 18 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 gold | acl:relcl |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 roots | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 roots | det |
| 21 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hidden | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 roots | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lifted | punct |
| 26 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 felt | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 lifted | obj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 lifted | compound:prt |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 muttered | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 muttered | cc |
| 31 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 felt | conj |
| 32 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 31 muttered | advmod |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 wretches | punct |
| 34 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 wretches | punct |
| 35 | Curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 wretches | nsubj |
| 36 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 38 wretches | det |
| 37 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 wretches | amod |
| 38 | wretches | wretch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 felt | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 cutting | punct |
| 40 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 felt | advcl |
| 41 | off | off | ADP | _ | 40 cutting | compound:prt |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 piece | det |
| 43 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 cutting | obj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 beard | case |
| 45 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 beard | nmod:poss |
| 46 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 beard | amod |
| 47 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 piece | nmod |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 40 cutting | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | end | as the dwarf; free, soon property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | end | a bag | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hide | past · passive | gold | the roots of the tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient among root=Location | ||||
| 4 | lift up | past | bag | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mutter speech: express | past | aloud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | wretch in a quote | Curse | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | cut off in a quote | gerund | a piece of my splendid beard | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector piece=Eventuality |
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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