The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 7
The forest sloped down to the sea, which was a clear blue.
Who acts: forest, sea · What happens: slope down, be
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest, sea), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 forest | det |
| 2 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sloped | nsubj |
| 3 | sloped | slope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 sloped | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sloped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blue | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 blue | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 blue | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 blue | det |
| 12 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 blue | amod |
| 13 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sea | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slope down | past | the forest | to the sea; down property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the sea | blue 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 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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