The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 22
The Man-Mountain shall not depart from our dominions without our license under the great seal.
Who acts: Man Mountain, our · What happens: not depart, license · To what, where: dominions, great seal
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man Mountain, our), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Mountain | det |
| 2 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Mountain | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Man | punct |
| 4 | Mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 depart | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 depart | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 depart | advmod |
| 7 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 dominions | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dominions | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dominions | dominion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 depart | obl |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 license | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 license | nmod:poss |
| 13 | license | license | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 depart | obl |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 seal | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 seal | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 seal | amod |
| 17 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 license | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 depart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not depart | shall | the Man Mountain | our dominions | without our license under the great seal | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from dominion=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | license | our | the great seal | nom license «communication transitive»: poss=agent under=place |
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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