The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 28

“Well, we shall soon see whether you have watched the meadow or not,” answered the brothers, but when they got there the grass was all standing just as long and as thick as it had been the night before.

Who acts: we, you, brothers, walls, grass · What happens: see, watch, answer, get, stand, be · To what, where: meadow · 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 (we, you, brothers, walls), 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	_	7 see	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 see	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 see	advmod
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 answered	ccomp
8	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	11 watched	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 watched	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 watched	aux
11	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 see	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 meadow	det
13	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 watched	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 not	cc
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 watched	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
18	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 brothers	det
20	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 answered	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 got	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 got	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 got	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 got	nsubj
25	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 answered	conj
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 got	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 grass	det
28	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 standing	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 standing	aux
30	all	all	ADV	_	31 standing	advmod
31	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 got	advcl
32	just	just	ADV	_	34 long	advmod
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 long	advmod
34	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 standing	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 thick	cc
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 thick	advmod
37	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 long	conj
38	as	as	ADP	_	43 night	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 night	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 night	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 night	cop
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 night	det
43	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 thick	obl
44	before	before	ADV	_	43 night	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	shall	we				soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	watch in a quote	present · perfect	you	the meadow				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past	the brothers					tree rules
4	get	past	walls = wall		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	stand	past · progressive	the grass				all, long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past · perfect	grass			as the night	before property	tree rules

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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