The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 55

She lives in a castle which lies east of the sun and west of the moon, and there too is a princess with a nose which is three ells long, and she now is the one whom I must marry.”

Who acts: mother, castle, princess, nose, I · What happens: live, lie, be, marry · To what, where: castle, one

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 (mother, castle, princess, nose), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 castle	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 castle	det
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lives	obl
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lies	nsubj
7	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 castle	acl:relcl
8	east	east	ADV	_	7 lies	advmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 east	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 west	cc
13	west	west	ADV	_	8 east	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 moon	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 moon	det
16	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 west	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 is	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 is	cc
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 is	expl
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 is	advmod
21	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lives	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 princess	det
23	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 is	nsubj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 nose	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 nose	det
26	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 princess	nmod
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 long	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 long	cop
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 ells	nummod
30	ells	ell	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 long	obl:unmarked
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 nose	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 one	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 one	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 one	nsubj
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 one	advmod
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 one	cop
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 one	det
38	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lives	parataxis
39	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 marry	obj
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 marry	nsubj
41	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 marry	aux
42	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 one	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lives	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 lives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	mother		a castle			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location
2	lie	present	a castle				east property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be	present	a princess with a nose		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	a nose				three ells obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
5	is a	present	mother	the one		now		tree rules
6	marry	must	I	the one				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient

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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