The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 7
Toward night I got with some difficulty into my house, where I lay on the ground, as I had to do for a fortnight, till a bed was prepared for me out of six hundred beds of the ordinary measure.
Who acts: I, bed · What happens: get, lay, have, do, be · To what, where: house, ground, hundred beds
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 (I, bed), 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 | Toward | toward | ADP | _ | 2 night | case |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 difficulty | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 difficulty | det |
| 7 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lay | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 lay | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lay | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 had | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 fortnight | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 fortnight | det |
| 26 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 prepared | punct |
| 28 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 32 prepared | mark |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bed | det |
| 30 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 prepared | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 prepared | cop |
| 32 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 had | parataxis |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 prepared | obl |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 39 beds | case |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 beds | case |
| 37 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 hundred | compound |
| 38 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 beds | nummod |
| 39 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 prepared | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 measure | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 measure | det |
| 42 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 measure | amod |
| 43 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 beds | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | I | my house | night | with some difficulty | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into house=Destination | ||
| 2 | lay | present | I | the ground | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination | ||||
| 3 | have | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | fortnight | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | a bed | hundred beds of the ordinary measure | for me; prepared 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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