The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 99
Said the South Wind: “It is I, and this is she who should have had the Prince who lives in the castle which lies east of the sun and west of the moon.
Who acts: South Wind, afar, this, Prince, castle · What happens: say, be, live, lie · To what, where: South Wind, 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 (South Wind, afar, this, Prince), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wind | det |
| 3 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Wind | compound |
| 4 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 I | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 I | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 I | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 I | cop |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 had | cc |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 had | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 had | cop |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 had | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 had | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 had | aux |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 lives | nsubj |
| 22 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Prince | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 castle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 castle | det |
| 25 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lives | obl |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 lies | nsubj |
| 27 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 castle | acl:relcl |
| 28 | east | east | ADV | _ | 27 lies | advmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 sun | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sun | det |
| 31 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 east | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 west | cc |
| 33 | west | west | ADV | _ | 28 east | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 moon | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 moon | det |
| 36 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 west | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the South Wind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | afar | the South Wind = wind | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | should · present · perfect | this | have property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live in a quote | present | the Prince | the castle | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location | ||||
| 5 | lie in a quote | present | the castle | east property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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