The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 49
Her sister Anne went up upon the top of the tower, and the poor afflicted wife cried out from time to time:
Who acts: sister, poor afflicted wife · What happens: go up, afflict, cry out
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 (sister, poor afflicted wife), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sister | appos |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 top | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 top | det |
| 8 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tower | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tower | det |
| 11 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 top | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cried | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wife | det |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wife | amod |
| 16 | afflicted | afflict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 wife | amod |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cried | nsubj |
| 18 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 cried | compound:prt |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cried | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cried | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | Anne's sister | upon the top of the tower | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | afflict | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | the poor afflicted wife | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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