The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 18

In the left there was a sort of engine, from the back of which extended twenty long poles, with which, we conjecture, the Man-Mountain combs his head.

Who acts: sort, back, twenty long poles, Mountain · What happens: be, extend, conjecture, comb, sort · To what, where: left, twenty long poles, head, engine

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sort, back, twenty long poles, Mountain), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 left	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 left	det
3	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	obl
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sort	det
7	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 engine	case
9	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sort	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 back	punct
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 back	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 back	det
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 extended	nsubj
16	extended	extend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 back	acl:relcl
17	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 poles	nummod
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 poles	amod
19	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 extended	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 conjecture	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 conjecture	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 which	punct
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 conjecture	nsubj
25	conjecture	conjecture	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 poles	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Man	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Man	det
28	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 conjecture	conj
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 combs	punct
30	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 combs	nsubj
31	combs	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 conjecture	parataxis
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 combs	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a sort of engine		the left; there	from the back	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in left=Location
2	extend	past	the back	twenty long poles and conjecture and the Man			vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent pole=Theme
3	conjecture		twenty long poles and conjecture and the Man				tree rules
4	comb	present	Mountain	man's head			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	sort			engine			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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