The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 117

She thanked him for having freed her from the cruel witch’s power, and willingly consented to marry him.

Who acts: crab · What happens: thank, free, consent, marry · To what, where: prince, crab, power

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crab), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	nsubj
2	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	obj
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 freed	mark
5	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 freed	aux
6	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thanked	advcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 freed	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	13 power	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 witch	det
10	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 witch	amod
11	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 power	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 witch	case
13	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 freed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 consented	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 consented	cc
16	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	17 consented	advmod
17	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thanked	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 marry	mark
19	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 consented	xcomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 marry	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	crab		prince			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	free	gerund · perfect	crab not said here	crab		the cruel witch's power		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer she=Source
3	consent	participle					willingly property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	marry	to-infinitive		prince				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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