The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 46
For I am the king’s wife, who was turned into a horse by the magician from whom you saved me.”
Who acts: I, magician, you · What happens: be, turn, save · To what, where: wife, me
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, magician, you), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wife | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | aux:pass |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 wife | acl:relcl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 horse | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 magician | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 magician | det |
| 17 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 whom | case |
| 19 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 turned | obl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 saved | nsubj |
| 21 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 whom | acl:relcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 saved | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wife | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | for the king's wife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | past · passive | the magician | the king's wife | into a horse result; from the king's wife | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient into horse=Result from whom=Initial_State | |||
| 3 | save | past | you | me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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