The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 80
Then he took a bag of precious stones and vanished under the rocks into his cave.
Who acts: man · What happens: take, vanish · To what, where: bag, rocks
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 (man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bag | det |
| 5 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stones | case |
| 7 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stones | amod |
| 8 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bag | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 vanished | cc |
| 10 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 rocks | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rocks | det |
| 13 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 vanished | obl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 cave | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cave | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vanished | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | a bag of precious stones | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | |||
| 2 | vanish | past | man not said here | the rocks | into man's cave | 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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