The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 8
The figure got up, looked at them kindly, but said nothing, and vanished into the wood.
Who acts: figure · What happens: get up, look, say, vanish · To what, where: nothing, wood · 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 (figure), 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 figure | det |
| 2 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 got | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | obl |
| 9 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 6 looked | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 vanished | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 vanished | cc |
| 16 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 wood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 vanished | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the figure | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | look | past | the figure not said here | at roses = rose; kindly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the figure not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 4 | vanish | past | the figure not said here | the wood | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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