The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 14

When they had gone a great part of the way, the White Bear said: “Are you afraid?”

Who acts: bounds, White Bear, you · What happens: go, say, be · To what, where: great part · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bounds, White Bear, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gone	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 part	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 part	amod
7	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 part	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Bear	det
13	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Bear	amod
14	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 afraid	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 afraid	punct
18	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 afraid	cop
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 afraid	nsubj
20	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 afraid	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	bounds = bound	a great part of the way		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	the White Bear			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	you		afraid property	tree rules

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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