The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 73
The ogre’s heart was moved at the sight of the queen’s beauty, and he promised that he would do her no harm; but he stabbed the boy at once, and binding his body on a horse, turned him loose in the forest.
Who acts: heart, queen · What happens: move, promise, do, stab, bind, turn · To what, where: heart, sight, harm, boy, body, beauty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, queen), 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 ogre | det |
| 2 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 ogre | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moved | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 moved | aux:pass |
| 6 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sight | det |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moved | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 beauty | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 queen | case |
| 14 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sight | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 promised | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 promised | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 promised | nsubj |
| 18 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 moved | advcl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 promised | ccomp |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 harm | nmod:poss |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 harm | det |
| 25 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 do | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 stabbed | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 stabbed | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 stabbed | nsubj |
| 29 | stabbed | stab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 moved | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 boy | det |
| 31 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stabbed | obj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 once | case |
| 33 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 29 stabbed | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 binding | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 binding | cc |
| 36 | binding | bind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 stabbed | advcl |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 body | nmod:poss |
| 38 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 binding | obj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 horse | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 horse | det |
| 41 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 binding | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 turned | punct |
| 43 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 stabbed | conj |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 turned | obj |
| 45 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 turned | xcomp |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 forest | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 forest | det |
| 48 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 loose | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past · passive | the ogre's heart | the sight of the queen's beauty | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | heart | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | would | heart | queen's harm | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | stab | past | heart | the boy | vn poke-19-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent boy=Instrument at once=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bind | gerund | heart not said here | heart's body | on a horse | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | |||
| 6 | turn | past | heart not said here | heart | loose property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme he=Result | |||
| 7 | sight | the queen's beauty | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | harm | queen | nom harm «state 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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