The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 91
When they had got there, the West Wind asked him if he could tell her the way to the castle that lay east of the sun and west of the moon, for she was the girl who ought to marry the Prince who lived there.
Who acts: curtains, West Wind, Wind, castle, girl, Prince · What happens: get, ask, tell, lie, be, marry · To what, where: bundle, way, girl, sun · 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, West Wind, Wind, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wind | det |
| 8 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Wind | compound |
| 9 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 tell | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | aux |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | xcomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 castle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 castle | det |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obl |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 lay | nsubj |
| 23 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 castle | acl:relcl |
| 24 | east | east | ADV | _ | 27 sun | advmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sun | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sun | det |
| 27 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lay | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 moon | cc |
| 29 | west | west | ADV | _ | 32 moon | advmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 moon | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 moon | det |
| 32 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sun | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 girl | punct |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 girl | case |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 girl | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 girl | cop |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 girl | det |
| 38 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | advcl |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 marry | nsubj |
| 40 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 marry | aux |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 marry | mark |
| 42 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 girl | acl:relcl |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Prince | det |
| 44 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 lived | nsubj |
| 45 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 lived | nsubj |
| 46 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 marry | ccomp |
| 47 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 lived | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | curtains = curtain | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the West Wind | bundle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | could | Wind | the way | girl | to the castle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient way=Topic | ||
| 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 | girl | for the girl | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | marry | ought | the girl | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | live | past | the Prince | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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