The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 3
One of his neighbors, a lady of quality, had two daughters who were perfect beauties.
Who acts: One, two daughters · What happens: have, be · To what, where: two daughters, perfect beauties
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, two daughters), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 had | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 neighbors | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 4 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lady | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 quality | case |
| 9 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lady | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lady | punct |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 daughters | nummod |
| 13 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 beauties | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 beauties | cop |
| 16 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beauties | amod |
| 17 | beauties | beauty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 daughters | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | One of man's neighbors | two daughters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | two daughters | perfect beauties | 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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