The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 69

“So it is you, then?” said the old woman; “I know nothing about him but that he dwells in a castle which is east of the sun and west of the moon.

Who acts: drop, old woman, castle · What happens: be, say, know, dwell · To what, where: you, nothing, castle · 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 (drop, old woman, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 you	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	5 you	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 you	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 you	cop
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 you	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 said	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 then	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
17	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 know	obj
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 nothing	nmod
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 dwells	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 dwells	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 dwells	nsubj
24	dwells	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 know	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 castle	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 castle	det
27	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dwells	obl
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 sun	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 sun	cop
30	east	east	ADV	_	33 sun	advmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 sun	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sun	det
33	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 castle	acl:relcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 moon	cc
35	west	west	ADV	_	38 moon	advmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 moon	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 moon	det
38	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sun	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	drop	you				tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	the old woman			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know in a quote	present	the old woman = woman	nothing			about castle	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	dwell in a quote	present	castle		a castle			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location
5	is in a quote	present	a castle				of the sun and the moon; east 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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