The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 65
“I see,” said she, “two horsemen, but they are yet a great way off.”
Who acts: Anne, horsemen · What happens: see, say, be · To what, where: two horsemen, great way · 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 (Anne, horsemen), 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 | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 horsemen | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 horsemen | punct |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 horsemen | nummod |
| 11 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 way | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 way | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 way | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 way | cop |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 19 way | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 20 | off | off | ADV | _ | 19 way | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 way | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | Anne | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Anne | two horsemen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | horsemen = horseman | a great way | yet | off 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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