The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 64
So, as soon as they reached the place, she gave him back his sight, but without releasing him from his chains, and by her magic power she appeared before him as a young and beautiful fairy, and pretended to have come there quite by chance.
Who acts: streets, Princess, King · What happens: reach, give back, release, appear, pretend, come · To what, where: place, sight, King, chains
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 (streets, Princess, King), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 reached | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reached | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 soon | advmod |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 reached | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 reached | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reached | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 gave | advmod |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sight | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 releasing | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 releasing | cc |
| 19 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 20 releasing | mark |
| 20 | releasing | release | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 reached | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 releasing | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 chains | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 chains | nmod:poss |
| 24 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 releasing | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 appeared | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 appeared | cc |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 power | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 power | nmod:poss |
| 29 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 power | amod |
| 30 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 appeared | obl |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 appeared | nsubj |
| 32 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reached | conj |
| 33 | before | before | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 appeared | obl |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 fairy | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 fairy | det |
| 37 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 fairy | amod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 beautiful | cc |
| 39 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 young | conj |
| 40 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 appeared | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 pretended | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 pretended | cc |
| 43 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reached | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 come | mark |
| 45 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 come | aux |
| 46 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 pretended | ccomp |
| 47 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 come | advmod |
| 48 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 46 come | advmod |
| 49 | by | by | ADP | _ | 50 chance | case |
| 50 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 come | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | streets = street | the place | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 2 | give back | past | Princess | King's sight | King | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sight=Theme | |||
| 3 | release | gerund | streets = street not said here | King | King's chains | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer he=Source | |||
| 4 | appear | past | Princess | before King | by Princess's magic power; as a young fairy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by power=Location | |||
| 5 | pretend | past | streets = street not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come | to-infinitive · perfect | streets = street not said here | there | by chance | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chance=Location | |||
| 7 | sight | King | nom sight «cognition transitive»: 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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