The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 27
“God knows what there was to make you two so frightened.”
Who acts: God · What happens: know, be, make · To what, where: two, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (God), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 was | obj |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knows | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 was | xcomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 frightened | advmod |
| 12 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 make | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | God | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | past | there | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | two | you | frightened property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary two=Product |
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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