The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 4

'It is the only way that I can free myself from the spells that were laid by the giants on me and the raven; for I was a girl and he was a youth wooing me!

Who acts: help, giants, I, Ian, girl · What happens: be, lay, woo · To what, where: only way, spells, youth, me

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (help, giants, I, Ian), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 way	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 free	nsubj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 free	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 free	aux
10	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	acl:relcl
11	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	10 free	obl:unmarked
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 spells	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spells	det
14	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 free	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 laid	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 laid	aux:pass
17	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 spells	acl:relcl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 giants	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 giants	det
20	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 laid	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 giants	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 raven	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 raven	det
25	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 me	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 girl	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	31 girl	case
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 girl	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 girl	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 girl	det
31	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 youth	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 youth	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 youth	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 youth	det
36	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 girl	conj
37	wooing	woo	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 girl	acl
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 wooing	obj
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	help	the only way		tree rules
2	lay	past · passive	the giants on me	the spells		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result
3	is	past	I		for a girl and a youth	tree rules
4	is a	past	Ian	a youth		tree rules
5	woo	gerund	a girl and a youth not said here	me		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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