The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 23

I was only a few months old when a wicked fairy, who had a spite against my parents, cast a spell over me, bending my back and wrinkling my skin till I looked as if I was a hundred years old, and making me such an object of disgust to everyone, that at length the king ordered my nurse to take my away from the palace.

Who acts: I, wicked fairy, king, nurse · What happens: be, cast, bend, wrinkle, look, make · To what, where: spell, back, skin, me, nurse

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wicked fairy, king, nurse), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 old	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 old	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 months	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 months	amod
6	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 old	obl:unmarked
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 cast	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fairy	det
10	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fairy	amod
11	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cast	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cast	aux
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 spite	det
16	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	against	against	ADP	_	19 parents	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 parents	nmod:poss
19	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 spite	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cast	punct
21	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 old	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 spell	det
23	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cast	obj
24	over	over	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 cast	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bending	punct
27	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 cast	advcl
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 back	nmod:poss
29	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bending	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wrinkling	cc
31	wrinkling	wrinkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 bending	conj
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 skin	nmod:poss
33	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wrinkling	obj
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 looked	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 looked	nsubj
36	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 wrinkling	advcl
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 old	mark
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 old	mark
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 old	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 old	cop
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 hundred	det
42	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 years	nummod
43	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 old	obl:unmarked
44	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 looked	ccomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 object	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 object	cc
47	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 object	csubj
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 making	obj
49	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	51 object	det:predet
50	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 object	det
51	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 old	conj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 disgust	case
53	disgust	disgust	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 object	nmod
54	to	to	ADP	_	55 everyone	case
55	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	51 object	nmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 length	punct
57	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	59 length	det
58	at	at	ADP	_	59 length	case
59	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 object	appos
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 king	det
61	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 ordered	nsubj
62	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 length	acl:relcl
63	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 nurse	nmod:poss
64	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 ordered	obj
65	to	to	PART	_	66 take	mark
66	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 ordered	xcomp
67	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 away	nmod:poss
68	away	away	ADV	_	66 take	compound:prt
69	from	from	ADP	_	71 palace	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 palace	det
71	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 away	obl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I		month	old property	tree rules
2	cast	past	a wicked fairy	a spell		over me	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme over i=Destination
3	bend	gerund	a wicked fairy not said here	my back			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent back=Material
4	wrinkle	gerund	a wicked fairy not said here	my skin			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
5	look	past	I				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	I		year	old property	tree rules
7	make	gerund		me			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product
8	order	past	the king	my nurse			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nurse=Recipient clause=Topic
9	take away not said to happen	to-infinitive	my nurse not said here				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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