The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 84
But, alas! in so doing he let fall the magic sword, and the Yellow Dwarf, who was crouching behind a lettuce, no sooner saw it than he sprang out and seized it, well knowing its wonderful power.
Who acts: Bellissima, Yellow Dwarf · What happens: do, let, fall, crouch, see, spring out · To what, where: magic sword, lettuce, sword, wonderful power
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellissima, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 doing | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 doing | punct |
| 3 | alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 7 doing | discourse |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 alas | punct |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 doing | mark |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 doing | advmod |
| 7 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | nsubj |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 doing | ccomp |
| 10 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sword | det |
| 12 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sword | amod |
| 13 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fall | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 saw | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Dwarf | det |
| 17 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Dwarf | amod |
| 18 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 crouching | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 crouching | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 crouching | aux |
| 22 | crouching | crouch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 Dwarf | acl |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 25 lettuce | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lettuce | det |
| 25 | lettuce | lettuce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crouching | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 saw | punct |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 sooner | det |
| 28 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 saw | advmod |
| 29 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 saw | obj |
| 31 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 33 sprang | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 sprang | nsubj |
| 33 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 saw | advcl |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 sprang | compound:prt |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 seized | cc |
| 36 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 sprang | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 seized | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 knowing | punct |
| 39 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 knowing | advmod |
| 40 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 seized | advcl |
| 41 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 power | nmod:poss |
| 42 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 power | amod |
| 43 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 knowing | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | let | past | Bellissima | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | Bellissima not said here | the magic sword | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sword=Result | ||||
| 4 | crouch | past · progressive | the Yellow Dwarf | a lettuce | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind lettuce=Location | ||||
| 5 | see | past | the Yellow Dwarf | sword | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | spring out | past | Bellissima | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | seize | past | Bellissima not said here | sword | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 8 | know | gerund | Bellissima not said here | sword's wonderful power | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus |
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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