The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 70
Then they continued their journey, taking with them the Porcelain Maiden, in the firm belief that their brother was drowned.
Who acts: servants, firm belief · What happens: continue, take, drown, journey · To what, where: journey, Porcelain Maiden, firm belief, brother
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, firm belief), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 continued | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 journey | nmod:poss |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 taking | punct |
| 7 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 continued | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 taking | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Maiden | det |
| 11 | Porcelain | Porcelain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Maiden | compound |
| 12 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 belief | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 belief | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 belief | det |
| 16 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 belief | amod |
| 17 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 drowned | mark |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 brother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 drowned | aux:pass |
| 22 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 belief | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | servants = servant | servants's journey | then | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | servants = servant not said here | the Porcelain Maiden | the firm belief | with servants = servant | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent maiden=Value in belief=Location | ||
| 3 | drown | past · passive | the firm belief not said here | servants's brother | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | journey | servants = servant | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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