The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 85
The Princess gave a cry of terror on seeing the Dwarf, but this only irritated the little monster; muttering a few magical words he summoned two giants, who bound the King with great chains of iron.
Who acts: Princess, monster, two giants, terror · What happens: give, see, irritate, mutter, summon, bind · To what, where: cry, Dwarf, this, few magical words, two giants, King
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 (Princess, monster, two giants, terror), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cry | det |
| 5 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 terror | case |
| 7 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cry | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 seeing | mark |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 gave | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Dwarf | det |
| 11 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 seeing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 irritated | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 irritated | cc |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 irritated | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 irritated | advmod |
| 16 | irritated | irritate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gave | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 monster | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 monster | amod |
| 19 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 irritated | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 muttering | punct |
| 21 | muttering | mutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 gave | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 words | det |
| 23 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 words | amod |
| 24 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 words | amod |
| 25 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 muttering | obj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 summoned | nsubj |
| 27 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 words | acl:relcl |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 giants | nummod |
| 29 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 summoned | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bound | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 bound | nsubj |
| 32 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 giants | acl:relcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 King | det |
| 34 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 bound | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 chains | case |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 chains | amod |
| 37 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 bound | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 iron | case |
| 39 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 chains | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Princess | a cry of terror | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the Princess not said here | the Dwarf | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dwarf=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | irritate | participle · passive | this | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer monster=Result | |||||
| 4 | mutter speech: assert | gerund | the Princess not said here | a few magical words | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 5 | summon | past | monster | a few magical words not said here | two giants | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Recipient | |||
| 6 | bind | past | two giants | the King | with great chains of iron | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent king=Patient with chain=Co-Patient | |||
| 7 | cry | terror | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/85/