The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 43
Long, long ago, I was enchanted by a wicked fairy, and condemned to keep the shape of a ball till I should meet with two maidens, who would take me to their own home.
Who acts: wicked fairy, I, two maidens · What happens: enchant, condemn, keep, meet, take · To what, where: I, shape, me, own home
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked fairy, I, two maidens), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 enchanted | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ago | punct |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ago | advmod |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 1 Long | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 enchanted | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 enchanted | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 8 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 fairy | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fairy | det |
| 11 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fairy | amod |
| 12 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enchanted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 condemned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 condemned | cc |
| 15 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 enchanted | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 keep | mark |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 condemned | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shape | det |
| 19 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 ball | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 ball | det |
| 22 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shape | nmod |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 meet | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 meet | nsubj |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 meet | aux |
| 26 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 keep | advcl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 maidens | case |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 maidens | nummod |
| 29 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 meet | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 take | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 take | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 take | aux |
| 33 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 maidens | acl:relcl |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 take | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 home | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 home | nmod:poss |
| 37 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 home | amod |
| 38 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 take | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 enchanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | past · passive | a wicked fairy | I | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | condemn | past | a wicked fairy not said here | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | a wicked fairy not said here | the shape of a ball | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | ||||
| 4 | meet | should | I | with two maidens | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with maiden=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | take | would | two maidens | me | maidens's own home | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to home=Destination |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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