The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 66
The girl asked her if she knew the way to the Prince who lived with his stepmother in the castle which lay east of the sun and west of the moon, and who was to marry a princess with a nose which was three ells long.
Who acts: girl, princess, way, castle, nose · What happens: ask, know, live, lie, be · To what, where: princess, way, castle, sun
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 (girl, princess, way, castle), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 knew | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Prince | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 way | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 way | acl:relcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 stepmother | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 castle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 castle | det |
| 20 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 lay | nsubj |
| 22 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 castle | acl:relcl |
| 23 | east | east | ADV | _ | 26 sun | advmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sun | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sun | det |
| 26 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 moon | cc |
| 28 | west | west | ADV | _ | 31 moon | advmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 moon | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 moon | det |
| 31 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sun | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 marry | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 marry | cc |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 marry | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 marry | cop |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 marry | mark |
| 37 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | conj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 princess | det |
| 39 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 marry | obj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 nose | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 nose | det |
| 42 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 marry | obl |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 long | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 long | cop |
| 45 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 ells | nummod |
| 46 | ells | ell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 long | obl:unmarked |
| 47 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 nose | acl:relcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the girl | princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | princess | the way | to the Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | live | past | the way | the castle | with man's stepmother | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with stepmother=Location | |||
| 4 | lie | past | the castle | the sun and the moon | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sun=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | with a nose; marry property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | past | a nose | three ells obl:unmarked; long 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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