The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 32
At this the giantess roared out with a terrible voice: “If he is near enough to hear my words, I lay this spell on him: Let him be half scorched and half withered; and may he have neither rest nor peace till he finds me.”
Who acts: Ingiborg, my · What happens: roar out, be, hear, lay, let, scorch · To what, where: words, spell, Ingiborg · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ingiborg, my), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 giantess | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 giantess | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giantess | det |
| 4 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roared | obl |
| 5 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 roared | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 voice | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 9 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 voice | amod |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roared | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 enough | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 enough | punct |
| 13 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 enough | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 enough | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 enough | cop |
| 16 | near | near | ADV | _ | 17 enough | advmod |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 roared | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 hear | mark |
| 19 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 enough | advcl |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 words | nmod:poss |
| 21 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hear | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lay | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 lay | nsubj |
| 24 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 roared | parataxis |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 spell | det |
| 26 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lay | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lay | obl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 Let | punct |
| 30 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 lay | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 Let | obj |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 scorched | aux:pass |
| 33 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 34 scorched | advmod |
| 34 | scorched | scorch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 Let | xcomp |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 withered | cc |
| 36 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 37 withered | advmod |
| 37 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 scorched | conj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 have | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 have | cc |
| 40 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 have | aux |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 have | nsubj |
| 42 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 roared | parataxis |
| 43 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 44 rest | cc:preconj |
| 44 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 have | xcomp |
| 45 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 46 peace | cc |
| 46 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 rest | conj |
| 47 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 49 finds | mark |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 finds | nsubj |
| 49 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 rest | advcl |
| 50 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 finds | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 have | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar out | past | at this giantess; with a terrible voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Ingiborg | enough, near property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | to-infinitive | Ingiborg not said here | my words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lay in a quote | present | Ingiborg | this spell | on Ingiborg | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spell=Theme on he=Destination | |||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | Ingiborg not said here | Ingiborg | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | scorch in a quote | infinitive · passive | Ingiborg not said here | half property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | ||||
| 7 | wither in a quote | participle | Ingiborg not said here | half property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | have in a quote | may | Ingiborg | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | rest in a quote | infinitive | Ingiborg not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | find in a quote | present | Ingiborg | Ingiborg | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic | ||||
| 11 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication 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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