The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 15
He replied, ‘Two miles from this place are standing seven windmills; see, I am blowing to drive them round.’
Who acts: man, Two miles, I · What happens: reply, stand, see, blow, drive · To what, where: seven windmills, miles
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Two miles, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 standing | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 standing | punct |
| 5 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 miles | nummod |
| 6 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 standing | nsubj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 miles | nmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 standing | aux |
| 11 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 replied | advcl |
| 12 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 windmills | nummod |
| 13 | windmills | windmill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 standing | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 replied | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 blowing | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 blowing | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 blowing | aux |
| 19 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 replied | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 drive | mark |
| 21 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 blowing | xcomp |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 drive | obj |
| 23 | round | round | ADV | _ | 21 drive | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 blowing | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 blowing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | man | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stand | present · progressive | Two miles from this place | seven windmills | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer windmill=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | blow | present · progressive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | drive | to-infinitive | I not said here | miles = mile | round property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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