The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 78
‘I know that it is to you I owe my deliverance from an enchantment which has held me for two hundred years.
Who acts: I, Eagle, you, my · What happens: know, be, owe, hold, deliver · To what, where: deliverance, enchantment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Eagle, you, my), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 owe | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 you | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 you | cop |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 owe | nsubj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 owe | nsubj |
| 10 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | ccomp |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 deliverance | nmod:poss |
| 12 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 owe | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 enchantment | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 enchantment | det |
| 15 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 owe | obl |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 held | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 held | aux |
| 18 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 enchantment | acl:relcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 held | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 years | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 hundred | compound |
| 22 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 years | nummod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 held | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Eagle | to you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | owe | present | you | my deliverance | a enchantment | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent deliverance=Theme | |||
| 4 | hold | present · perfect · passive | a enchantment | year | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme i=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | deliver | my | nom deliverance «act transitive»: poss=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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