The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 21

From another pocket hung a huge silver chain, with a wonderful kind of engine fastened to it, a globe half silver and half of some transparent metal; for on the transparent side we saw certain strange figures, and thought we could touch them till we found our fingers stopped by the shining substance.

Who acts: we · What happens: hang, fasten, see, think, touch, find · To what, where: huge silver chain, pocket, engine, certain strange figures, figures, fingers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (we), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 pocket	case
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 pocket	det
3	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obl
4	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chain	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chain	amod
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chain	compound
8	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kind	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 kind	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 kind	det
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kind	amod
13	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 engine	case
15	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kind	nmod
16	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 engine	acl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fastened	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 silver	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 silver	det
21	globe	globe	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 half	compound
22	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	23 silver	compound
23	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kind	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 half	cc
25	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	23 silver	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 metal	case
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 metal	det
28	transparent	transparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 metal	amod
29	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 half	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 saw	punct
31	for	for	ADP	_	35 side	case
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 side	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 side	det
34	transparent	transparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 side	amod
35	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 saw	obl
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 saw	nsubj
37	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hung	conj
38	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 figures	amod
39	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 figures	amod
40	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 saw	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 thought	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 thought	cc
43	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 saw	advcl
44	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 touch	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 touch	aux
46	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 thought	ccomp
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 touch	obj
48	till	till	SCONJ	_	50 found	mark
49	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 found	nsubj
50	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 touch	advcl
51	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 fingers	nmod:poss
52	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 found	obj
53	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 fingers	acl
54	by	by	ADP	_	57 substance	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 substance	det
56	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	57 substance	amod
57	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 stopped	obl:agent
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	past		a huge silver chain		another pocket		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Patient
2	fasten	participle		engine not said here	pocket			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to it=Co-Patient
3	see	past	we	certain strange figures			for the transparent side	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	past	we not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	touch	could	we	figures = figure				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
6	find	past	we	our fingers				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Topic
7	stop	participle		our fingers not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	shine	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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