The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 6
I took nine sticks, and fixed them firmly in the ground in a square.
Who acts: I · What happens: take, fix · To what, where: nine sticks, sticks, ground
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sticks | nummod |
| 4 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fixed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fixed | cc |
| 7 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fixed | obj |
| 9 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 7 fixed | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fixed | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 square | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 square | det |
| 15 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fixed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | I | nine sticks | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fix | past | I not said here | sticks = stick | the ground | in a square; firmly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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