The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 52
Seeing the stone approaching, he held out the magic herbs which he carried, but the baptized stone was no longer subject to the spells that bound the rest, and passed straight on its way, leaving the wizard crushed into powder in the heather.
Who acts: man, stone, baptized stone, spells · What happens: see, approach, hold out, carry, baptize, be · To what, where: stone, magic herbs, subject, rest, way, wizard
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, stone, baptized stone, spells), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 held | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stone | det |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 4 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stone | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 held | nsubj |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 held | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 herbs | det |
| 10 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 herbs | compound |
| 11 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 held | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 carried | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carried | nsubj |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 herbs | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 subject | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 subject | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stone | det |
| 18 | baptized | baptize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stone | amod |
| 19 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 subject | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 subject | cop |
| 21 | no | no | ADV | _ | 22 longer | advmod |
| 22 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 subject | advmod |
| 23 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 spells | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 spells | det |
| 26 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 subject | nmod |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 bound | nsubj |
| 28 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 spells | acl:relcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 rest | det |
| 30 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bound | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 passed | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 passed | cc |
| 33 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 carried | conj |
| 34 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 37 way | advmod |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 way | case |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 way | nmod:poss |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 passed | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 leaving | punct |
| 39 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 passed | advcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 wizard | det |
| 41 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 leaving | obj |
| 42 | crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 wizard | acl |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 powder | case |
| 44 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 crushed | obl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 heather | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 heather | det |
| 47 | heather | heather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 crushed | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | man not said here | the stone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | approach | gerund | the stone not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hold out | past | man | the magic herbs | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | man | the magic herbs | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 5 | baptize | participle | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is a | past | the baptized stone | subject | to the spells; long property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | bound | present | the spells | the rest | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location rest=Theme | ||||
| 8 | pass | participle | man not said here | stone's way | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | ||||
| 9 | leave | gerund | man not said here | the wizard | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wizard=Theme | ||||
| 10 | crush | participle | the wizard not said here | into powder result; in the heather | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into powder=Result |
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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