The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 108
He never left the cinder-heap on any of the three days.”
Who acts: last two · What happens: not leave · To what, where: cinder heap, any
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last two), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 left | advmod |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heap | det |
| 5 | cinder | cinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heap | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 cinder | punct |
| 7 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 any | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 left | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 days | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 days | det |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 days | nummod |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 any | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | past | last two = two | the cinder heap | any | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent heap=Theme on any=Location |
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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