The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 54
I have a step-mother who has bewitched me so that I am a white bear by day and a man by night; but now all is at an end between you and me, and I must leave you, and go to her.
Who acts: I, step mother, all · What happens: have, bewitch, be, leave, go · To what, where: step mother, me, white bear, end, you, mother
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, step mother, all), 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 | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mother | det |
| 4 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mother | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 step | punct |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 bewitched | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bewitched | aux |
| 9 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 mother | acl:relcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 bewitched | obj |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 bear | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 so | fixed |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 bear | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bear | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bear | det |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bear | amod |
| 17 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bewitched | advcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bear | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 man | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bear | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 night | case |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bewitched | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 end | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 end | cc |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 end | advmod |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 end | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 end | cop |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 end | case |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 end | det |
| 32 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | parataxis |
| 33 | between | between | ADP | _ | 34 you | case |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 end | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 me | cc |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 you | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 leave | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 leave | cc |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 leave | nsubj |
| 40 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 leave | aux |
| 41 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | parataxis |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 leave | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 go | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 go | cc |
| 45 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 leave | conj |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 her | case |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 go | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a step mother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bewitch | present · perfect | a step mother | me | night | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | is a | present | I | a white bear and a man | day | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | present | all | at a end; now | between you | tree rules | |||
| 5 | leave | must | I | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | I not said here | mother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location |
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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