The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 90
And she gave three strokes of her wand upon the Golden Branch, and immediately all the prisoners in the Enchanter’s castle found themselves free, and came with all speed to the wonderful garden, where one touch of the Golden Branch restored each one to his natural form, and they greeted one another with many rejoicings.
Who acts: Fairy, prisoners, one touch, touch · What happens: give, find, come, restore, greet, stroke · To what, where: three strokes, prisoners, wonderful garden, one, natural form, wand
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (Fairy, prisoners, one touch, touch), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gave | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 strokes | nummod |
| 5 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wand | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strokes | nmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 Branch | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Branch | det |
| 11 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Branch | amod |
| 12 | Branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wand | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 found | cc |
| 15 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 16 all | advmod |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 prisoners | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prisoners | det |
| 18 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 found | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 castle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Enchanter | det |
| 21 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 castle | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Enchanter | case |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 prisoners | nmod |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 25 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 found | obj |
| 26 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 found | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 came | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 came | cc |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 speed | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 speed | det |
| 32 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 came | obl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 garden | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 garden | det |
| 35 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 garden | amod |
| 36 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 came | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 restored | punct |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 45 restored | advmod |
| 39 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 touch | nummod |
| 40 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 restored | nsubj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Branch | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Branch | det |
| 43 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 Branch | amod |
| 44 | Branch | Branch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 touch | nmod |
| 45 | restored | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 came | conj |
| 46 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 one | det |
| 47 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 restored | obj |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 form | case |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 form | nmod:poss |
| 50 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 form | amod |
| 51 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 restored | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 greeted | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 greeted | cc |
| 54 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 greeted | nsubj |
| 55 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 56 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 55 greeted | obj |
| 57 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 56 one | fixed |
| 58 | with | with | ADP | _ | 60 rejoicings | case |
| 59 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 rejoicings | amod |
| 60 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 greeted | obl |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Fairy | three strokes of Fairy's wand upon the Golden Branch | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroke=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | all prisoners in the Enchanter's castle | prisoners = prisoner | free property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | |||
| 3 | come | past | the wonderful garden | with all speed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to garden=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | restore | past | one touch of the Golden Branch | each one | touch's natural form | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Theme to form=Recipient | |||
| 5 | greet speech: greet | past | prisoners = prisoner | one | with many rejoicings | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 6 | stroke | Fairy's wand upon the Golden Branch | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | touch | the Golden Branch | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | form | touch | nom form «communication 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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