The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 87
When they got there, the East Wind went in and said that the girl whom he had brought was the one who ought to have had the Prince up at the castle which lay east of the sun and west of the moon, and that now she was traveling about to find him again, so he had come there with her, and would like to hear if the West Wind knew whereabout the castle was.
Who acts: curtains, East Wind, girl, one, castle, that · What happens: get, go in, say, bring, be, have · To what, where: girl, one, Prince, castle, sun, Wind · 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 (curtains, East Wind, girl, one), 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 | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Wind | det |
| 7 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Wind | compound |
| 8 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 one | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 one | nsubj |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brought | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 brought | aux |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 girl | acl:relcl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 one | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 had | nsubj |
| 24 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 had | aux |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 had | mark |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 had | aux |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 one | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Prince | det |
| 29 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 Prince | compound:prt |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 castle | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 castle | det |
| 33 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obl |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 lay | nsubj |
| 35 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 castle | acl:relcl |
| 36 | east | east | ADV | _ | 39 sun | advmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 sun | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sun | det |
| 39 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lay | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 moon | cc |
| 41 | west | west | ADV | _ | 44 moon | advmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 moon | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 moon | det |
| 44 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sun | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 traveling | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 traveling | cc |
| 47 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 traveling | nsubj |
| 48 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 51 traveling | advmod |
| 49 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 traveling | nsubj |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 traveling | aux |
| 51 | traveling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 52 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 54 find | mark |
| 53 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 find | mark |
| 54 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 traveling | advcl |
| 55 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 find | obj |
| 56 | again | again | ADV | _ | 54 find | advmod |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 come | punct |
| 58 | so | so | ADV | _ | 61 come | advmod |
| 59 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 come | nsubj |
| 60 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 61 come | aux |
| 61 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 went | parataxis |
| 62 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 61 come | advmod |
| 63 | with | with | ADP | _ | 64 her | case |
| 64 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 come | obl |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 like | punct |
| 66 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 68 like | cc |
| 67 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 68 like | aux |
| 68 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | conj |
| 69 | to | to | PART | _ | 70 hear | mark |
| 70 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 68 like | xcomp |
| 71 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 75 knew | mark |
| 72 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 74 Wind | det |
| 73 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 74 Wind | compound |
| 74 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 75 knew | nsubj |
| 75 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 70 hear | ccomp |
| 76 | whereabout | whereabout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 75 knew | obj |
| 77 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 78 castle | det |
| 78 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 75 knew | obj |
| 79 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 75 knew | cop |
| 80 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | curtains = curtain | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go in | past | the East Wind | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the East Wind not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the girl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | the girl | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | ought · perfect | the one | the Prince | the castle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient | |||
| 7 | lie | past | the castle | the sun and the moon | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sun=Theme | ||||
| 8 | travel | past · progressive | that | now | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | find | to-infinitive | that not said here | Wind | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 10 | come | past · perfect | Wind | there | with girl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 11 | like | would | the East Wind not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 12 | hear not said to happen | to-infinitive | the East Wind not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 13 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the West Wind | know 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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