The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 60
“I see,” replied sister Anne, “a great dust, which comes on this side here.”
Who acts: I, great dust · What happens: see, reply, come · To what, where: sister Anne, side · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, great dust), 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sister | amod |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Anne | compound |
| 8 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dust | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 dust | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dust | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dust | amod |
| 13 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Anne | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 comes | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 comes | nsubj |
| 16 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dust | acl:relcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 side | det |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 comes | obl |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 comes | advmod |
| 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 | I | sister Anne | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | a great dust | this side; here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
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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