The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 57
It was a frame of wood, raised three inches from the ground, about seven feet long and four wide, moving upon twenty-two wheels.
Who acts: engine, frame · What happens: be, raise, move · To what, where: frame, three inches, ground, two wheels
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (engine, frame), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 frame | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frame | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 frame | det |
| 4 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wood | case |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 frame | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 raised | punct |
| 8 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 frame | acl |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 inches | nummod |
| 10 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 raised | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 raised | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 long | punct |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 seven | advmod |
| 16 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 feet | nummod |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 long | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 raised | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wide | cc |
| 20 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 wide | nummod |
| 21 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 long | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 moving | punct |
| 23 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 long | advcl |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 wheels | case |
| 25 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 two | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 twenty | punct |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 wheels | nummod |
| 28 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 moving | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | engine | a frame | of wood | tree rules | |||
| 2 | raise | participle | a frame not said here | three inches | the ground | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent inch=Theme from ground=Destination | |||
| 3 | move | gerund | a frame not said here | two wheels | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon wheel=Trajectory |
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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