The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 61

I lament the fate of a duke’s daughter, whom they seized as she was walking in her father’s garden, and brought hither transformed into a deer.”

Who acts: I, men, road · What happens: lament, seize, walk, bring, transform, fate · To what, where: fate, garden, deer, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, men, road), 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 lament	nsubj
2	lament	lament	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fate	det
4	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lament	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 daughter	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 duke	det
7	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 daughter	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 duke	case
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fate	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seized	punct
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 seized	obj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seized	nsubj
13	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fate	conj
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 walking	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 walking	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 walking	aux
17	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 seized	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 garden	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 garden	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 father	case
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walking	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 brought	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 brought	cc
25	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lament	conj
26	hither	hither	ADV	_	27 transformed	advmod
27	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 brought	xcomp
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 deer	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 deer	det
30	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 transformed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lament	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 lament	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lament	present	I	the fate of a duke's daughter			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus
2	seize	past	men = man	the fate of a duke's daughter			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme
3	walk	past · progressive	road		road's father's garden		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory
4	bring	past	I not said here				tree rules
5	transform	participle	I not said here			into a deer result; hither property	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into deer=Result
6	fate			a duke's daughter			nom fate «event transitive»: of=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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