The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 135
‘They are making ready this very day,’ said the Eagle, ‘for the marriage of the daughter of the King of the Blue Mountains.
Who acts: men, Eagle · What happens: make, say, marry · To what, where: daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, Eagle), 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 | _ | 4 making | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 making | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 making | aux |
| 4 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 making | xcomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 day | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 day | advmod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 making | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 making | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 making | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Eagle | det |
| 13 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 marriage | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ‘ | CCONJ | _ | 18 marriage | cc |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 marriage | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 marriage | det |
| 18 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 daughter | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 daughter | det |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 marriage | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 King | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 daughter | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Mountains | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Mountains | det |
| 27 | Blue | Blue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Mountains | compound |
| 28 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 King | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · progressive | men = man | day | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Eagle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | marry | the daughter of the King of the Blue Mountains | nom marriage «state 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 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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