The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 74
“Not that I have any dislike to the Fairy of the Desert, but I really cannot endure the way in which she protects the Yellow Dwarf and keeps me chained here like a criminal.
Who acts: King, Fairy · What happens: not have, not endure, protect, keep, chain · To what, where: dislike, way, Yellow Dwarf, King
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 (King, Fairy), 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 | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 have | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 dislike | det |
| 7 | dislike | dislike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Fairy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fairy | det |
| 10 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dislike | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Desert | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Desert | det |
| 13 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fairy | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 endure | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 endure | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 endure | nsubj |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 20 endure | advmod |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 endure | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 endure | advmod |
| 20 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 endure | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 protects | obl |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 protects | nsubj |
| 26 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 way | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Dwarf | det |
| 28 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Dwarf | amod |
| 29 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 protects | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 keeps | cc |
| 31 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 protects | conj |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 keeps | obj |
| 33 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 keeps | xcomp |
| 34 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 chained | advmod |
| 35 | like | like | ADP | _ | 37 criminal | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 criminal | det |
| 37 | criminal | criminal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 chained | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have in a quote | present | King | any dislike | to the Fairy of the Desert | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dislike=Patient | |||
| 2 | not endure in a quote | can | King | the way | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | protect in a quote | present | Fairy | the Yellow Dwarf | the way | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | keep in a quote | present | Fairy not said here | King | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | chain in a quote | participle | King not said here | here | like a criminal | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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