The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 33
Cursed be the fire in which it was forged and the man who fashioned it!’
Who acts: you · What happens: curse, be, forge · To what, where: Cursed fire, fire
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fire | amod |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fire | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fire | det |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 forged | obl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 forged | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 forged | aux:pass |
| 9 | forged | forge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fire | acl:relcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 man | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forged | conj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 fashioned | nsubj |
| 14 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fashioned | nsubj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | imperative | you not said here | the Cursed fire | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | forge | past · passive | fire | the Cursed fire | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=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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