The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 96
“I am a king’s son,” he said, “and have been doomed by that unholy little dwarf, who had stolen my treasure, to roam about the woods as a wild bear till his death should set me free.
Who acts: man, unholy little dwarf, my · What happens: be, say, doom, steal, roam, set · To what, where: treasure, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, unholy little dwarf, my), 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 | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 king | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | compound |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 doomed | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 doomed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 doomed | cc |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 doomed | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 doomed | aux:pass |
| 17 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 set | advcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 dwarf | case |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 dwarf | nsubj |
| 20 | unholy | unholy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dwarf | amod |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dwarf | amod |
| 22 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 doomed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stolen | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 stolen | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 stolen | aux |
| 26 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 dwarf | acl |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 28 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stolen | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 roam | punct |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 roam | mark |
| 31 | roam | roam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 doomed | conj |
| 32 | about | about | ADP | _ | 34 woods | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 woods | det |
| 34 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 roam | obl |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 bear | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 bear | det |
| 37 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 bear | amod |
| 38 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 roam | obl |
| 39 | till | till | ADP | _ | 41 death | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 death | nmod:poss |
| 41 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 roam | obl |
| 42 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 set | aux |
| 43 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 44 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 set | obj |
| 45 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 set | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | man | 's a king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | doom in a quote | present · perfect · passive | unholy little dwarf | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | steal in a quote | past · perfect | unholy little dwarf | my treasure | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location treasure=Theme | ||||
| 5 | roam in a quote | to-infinitive | unholy little dwarf not said here | till man's death | about the woods; as a wild bear | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about wood=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | set in a quote | should | man | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result | ||||
| 7 | treasure in a quote | my | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | die in a quote | man | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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 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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