The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 57
“I see nothing but the sun, which makes a dust, and the grass, which is green.”
Who acts: sister, grass · What happens: see, make, be · To what, where: nothing, dust
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, grass), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 see | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 sun | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 makes | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 makes | nsubj |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nothing | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dust | det |
| 12 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 makes | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grass | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grass | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 grass | det |
| 16 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 green | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 green | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 green | cop |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grass | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | sister | nothing | the grass obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | a dust | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dust=Product | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the grass | green 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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