The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 59
“Honored King,” said the wizard, “the wind has blown this illness upon your son, and a magic ball has snatched away his beloved.
Who acts: wizard · What happens: honor, say, blow, snatch away · To what, where: King, wind, magic ball · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wizard), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Honored | punct |
| 2 | Honored | honor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Honored | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Honored | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Honored | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wizard | det |
| 8 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 blown | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 blown | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wind | det |
| 12 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 blown | aux |
| 14 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | conj |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 illness | det |
| 16 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blown | obj |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 son | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blown | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 snatched | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 snatched | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 ball | det |
| 23 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ball | compound |
| 24 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 snatched | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 snatched | aux |
| 26 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | conj |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 snatched | advmod |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 beloved | nmod:poss |
| 29 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 snatched | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honor in a quote | participle | King | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the wizard | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | blow in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the wind | upon your son | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary illness=Product | ||||
| 4 | snatch away in a quote | present · perfect · passive | a magic ball | away, beloved property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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