The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 85
At last she pitied him, and removed the charm, and the horns dropped down on the ground, and he would have killed her on the spot, only he was as weak as water, and his fellow-servants came in and carried him up to the big house.
Who acts: girl, horns, eye, fellow servants · What happens: pity, remove, drop down, kill, be, come in · To what, where: eye, last, charm, ground, spot, big house
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, horns, eye, fellow servants), 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 | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pitied | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pitied | nsubj |
| 4 | pitied | pity | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pitied | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 removed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 removed | cc |
| 8 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pitied | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 charm | det |
| 10 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 removed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dropped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dropped | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horns | det |
| 14 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dropped | nsubj |
| 15 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pitied | parataxis |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 dropped | compound:prt |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dropped | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 killed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 killed | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 killed | aux |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 killed | aux |
| 25 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 dropped | conj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 killed | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 spot | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 spot | det |
| 29 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 killed | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 weak | punct |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 35 weak | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 weak | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 weak | cop |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 35 weak | advmod |
| 35 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 killed | conj |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 water | case |
| 37 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 weak | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 came | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 came | cc |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 servants | nmod:poss |
| 41 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 servants | amod |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 fellow | punct |
| 43 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 came | nsubj |
| 44 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pitied | parataxis |
| 45 | in | in | ADV | _ | 44 came | advmod |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 carried | cc |
| 47 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 came | conj |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 carried | obj |
| 49 | up | up | ADP | _ | 47 carried | compound:prt |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 house | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 house | det |
| 52 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 house | amod |
| 53 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 carried | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pitied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pity | past | girl | eye | last | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | remove | past | girl not said here | the charm | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drop down | past | the horns | the ground | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | kill | would · perfect · passive | eye | the spot | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer she=Result | ||||
| 5 | is | past | eye | as water; weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come in | past | eye's fellow servants | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | carry up | past | eye's fellow servants not said here | eye | the big house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to house=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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