The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 14
These I took out and fastened upon my nose, and thus armed went on with my work in spite of the arrows, many of which struck against the glasses of my spectacles, but without any other effect than slightly disturbing them.
Who acts: These, many, other effect, my · What happens: take out, fasten, go on, strike, disturb, work · To what, where: glasses, spectacles, spite, arrows
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, many, other effect, my), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fastened | cc |
| 6 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 nose | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 nose | nmod:poss |
| 9 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fastened | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 12 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 13 armed | advmod |
| 13 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 went | xcomp |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 work | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 work | nmod:poss |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 spite | case |
| 20 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 work | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 arrows | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 arrows | det |
| 23 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spite | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 struck | punct |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 struck | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 many | nmod |
| 28 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 29 | against | against | ADP | _ | 31 glasses | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 glasses | det |
| 31 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 struck | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 spectacles | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 spectacles | nmod:poss |
| 34 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 glasses | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 effect | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 effect | cc |
| 37 | without | without | ADP | _ | 40 effect | case |
| 38 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 effect | det |
| 39 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 effect | amod |
| 40 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 struck | conj |
| 41 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 43 disturbing | mark |
| 42 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 43 disturbing | advmod |
| 43 | disturbing | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 effect | acl |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 disturbing | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | These | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fasten | past | These not said here | upon my nose | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go on | past | These not said here | with my work in spite of the arrows; armed property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | strike | past | many | the glasses of my spectacles | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against glass=Location | ||||
| 5 | disturb | gerund | any other effect not said here | spectacles = spectacle | slightly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | work | my | spite of the arrows | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place | |||||
| 7 | spite | the arrows | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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