The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 241
‘But she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.’
Who acts: wicked sorceress, creature · What happens: bewitch, not regain, be · To what, where: creature, beauty
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked sorceress, creature), 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 | _ | 6 bewitched | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 bewitched | cc |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bewitched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bewitched | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 bewitched | aux:pass |
| 6 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 sorceress | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sorceress | det |
| 9 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sorceress | amod |
| 10 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bewitched | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 regain | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 regain | cc |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 regain | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 regain | advmod |
| 15 | regain | regain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bewitched | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 17 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 regain | obj |
| 18 | until | until | ADP | _ | 22 wife | case |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wife | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wife | cop |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 regain | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bewitched | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 bewitched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bewitch | present · perfect · passive | a wicked sorceress | creature | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not regain | future | a wicked sorceress not said here | creature's beauty | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | creature | until my wife | tree rules |
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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