The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 69
‘Thanks,’ said he, ‘for this service, which has freed me from a spell that not even death itself could loosen.
Who acts: fox, death · What happens: say, free, loosen · To what, where: service, spell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, death), 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 | _ | 2 Thanks | punct |
| 2 | Thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thanks | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thanks | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 service | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 service | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 service | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 service | det |
| 11 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 freed | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 freed | aux |
| 15 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 service | acl:relcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 freed | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 spell | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 spell | det |
| 19 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 freed | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 loosen | obj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 death | advmod |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 death | advmod |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 loosen | nsubj |
| 24 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 23 death | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 loosen | aux |
| 26 | loosen | loosen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 spell | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | free | present · perfect · passive | this service | a spell | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | loosen | could | death death | a spell | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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