The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 35
Given at our palace at Belfaburac, the twelfth day of the ninety-first moon of our reign.”
What happens: give · To what, where: palace
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: 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 | Given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 palace | case |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 palace | nmod:poss |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Given | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Belfaburac | case |
| 6 | Belfaburac | Belfaburac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 palace | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 day | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 9 | twelfth | twelfth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Belfaburac | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 moon | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moon | det |
| 13 | ninety | ninety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 first | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ninety | punct |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 moon | amod |
| 16 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 day | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 reign | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 reign | nmod:poss |
| 19 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 moon | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Given | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | our palace at Belfaburac | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at palace=Asset |
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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