The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 110
Three days more and this unholy spell would have fallen from me, and now, who knows how long I may have to go about in this disgusting shape?
Who acts: unholy spell, I · What happens: fall, know, have, go about · To what, where: disgusting shape
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unholy spell, I), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 more | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 fallen | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fallen | cc |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 spell | det |
| 6 | unholy | unholy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spell | amod |
| 7 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fallen | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fallen | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fallen | aux |
| 10 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fallen | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 have | cc |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 have | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knows | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 knows | nsubj |
| 18 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | advcl |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 long | advmod |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 have | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fallen | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 have | xcomp |
| 26 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 go | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 shape | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 shape | det |
| 29 | disgusting | disgusting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 shape | amod |
| 30 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 go | obl |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | would · perfect | this unholy spell | from me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | have | may | I | now | long property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go about | to-infinitive | I not said here | this disgusting shape | about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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