The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 59
Giving up the combat, he flew toward the Princess, to rescue or to die with her; but the Yellow Dwarf was too quick for him.
Who acts: much, Yellow Dwarf · What happens: give up, fly, rescue, die, be · To what, where: combat
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much, Yellow Dwarf), 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 | Giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 flew | advcl |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Giving | compound:prt |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 combat | det |
| 4 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Giving | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Giving | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 flew | nsubj |
| 7 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 10 Princess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rescue | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 rescue | mark |
| 13 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 flew | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 die | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 die | mark |
| 16 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rescue | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 die | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 quick | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 quick | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Dwarf | det |
| 22 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Dwarf | amod |
| 23 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 quick | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 quick | cop |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 quick | advmod |
| 26 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flew | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 quick | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | gerund | much not said here | the combat | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent combat=Source | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | much | toward the Princess | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward princess=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | rescue | to-infinitive | much not said here | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | die | to-infinitive | much not said here | with Princess | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the Yellow Dwarf | for much; quick property | tree rules |
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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