The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 25

Then the White Bear asked what it was that she wanted, and she told him that it was so dull there in the mountain, and that she had to go about all alone, and that in her parents’ house at home there were all her brothers and sisters, and it was because she could not go to them that she was so sorrowful.

Who acts: White Bear, daylight, door · What happens: ask, be, tell, have, go, not be · To what, where: bear, mountain, brothers, sisters · 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 (White Bear, daylight, door), 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	5 asked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Bear	det
3	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Bear	amod
4	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 asked	nsubj
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 asked	obj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wanted	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wanted	cop
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 wanted	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asked	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 dull	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dull	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dull	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 dull	advmod
21	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 told	xcomp
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 dull	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 mountain	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mountain	det
25	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dull	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asked	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 go	mark
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	xcomp
33	about	about	ADP	_	34 all	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 go	obl
35	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 all	amod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 brothers	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 brothers	cc
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 brothers	mark
39	in	in	ADP	_	43 house	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 parents	nmod:poss
41	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 house	nmod:poss
42	’	's	PART	_	41 parents	case
43	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 were	obl
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 home	case
45	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 house	nmod
46	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	47 were	expl
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 brothers	cop
48	all	all	ADV	_	50 brothers	advmod
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 brothers	nmod:poss
50	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 asked	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 sisters	cc
52	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 brothers	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 go	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 go	cc
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 go	nsubj
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 go	cop
57	because	because	SCONJ	_	61 go	mark
58	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 go	nsubj
59	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 go	aux
60	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	61 go	advmod
61	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 asked	conj
62	to	to	ADP	_	63 them	case
63	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 go	obl
64	that	that	SCONJ	_	68 sorrowful	mark
65	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 sorrowful	nsubj
66	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 sorrowful	cop
67	so	so	ADV	_	68 sorrowful	advmod
68	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 go	advcl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the White Bear				then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
2	is	past	daylight					want property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	door		bear				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is not said to happen	past	daylight			the mountain; there		dull property	tree rules
5	have	past	door						tree rules
6	go	to-infinitive	door not said here					about all	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about all=Location
7	is a	past		door's brothers and sisters				all property	tree rules
8	not is	could · past	daylight		sisters = sister			go property	tree rules
9	is	past	door					sorrowful 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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