The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 98
So ended these unfortunate lovers, whom not even the Mermaid could help, because all the magic power had been lost with the diamond sword.
Who acts: Mermaid · What happens: not help, lose · To what, where: ended unfortunate lovers, magic 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 (Mermaid), 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 | _ | 2 ended | advmod |
| 2 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lovers | amod |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 lovers | det |
| 4 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lovers | amod |
| 5 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 7 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 help | obj |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 help | advmod |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 Mermaid | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Mermaid | det |
| 11 | Mermaid | Mermaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 help | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | aux |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lovers | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lost | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 lost | mark |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 power | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 power | det |
| 18 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 power | compound |
| 19 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lost | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 lost | aux:pass |
| 22 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 help | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 sword | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sword | det |
| 25 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sword | compound |
| 26 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lost | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lovers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | could | the Mermaid | this ended unfortunate lovers | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect · passive | all magic power | with the diamond sword | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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