The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 44
The wizard was now dead, the pole-cat put on human shape, and the youth afterwards married the girl, and from that time forward let all his magic arts alone.
Who acts: wizard, youth · What happens: be, put, marry, let · To what, where: pole cat, human shape, girl, magic arts
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wizard, youth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wizard | det |
| 2 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 dead | advmod |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cat | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 8 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cat | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 pole | punct |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dead | conj |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 cat | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 shape | case |
| 13 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shape | amod |
| 14 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 married | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 married | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 youth | det |
| 18 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 married | nsubj |
| 19 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 20 married | advmod |
| 20 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 girl | det |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 married | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 let | cc |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 time | det |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 let | obl |
| 28 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 29 let | advmod |
| 29 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | conj |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 arts | det:predet |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 arts | nmod:poss |
| 32 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 arts | amod |
| 33 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 let | obj |
| 34 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 29 let | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the wizard | now | dead property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | put | participle | the pole cat not said here | human shape | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shape=Destination | ||||
| 3 | marry | past | the youth | the girl | afterwards property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | |||
| 4 | let | past | the wizard not said here | wizard's magic arts | time | alone, forward property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Theme |
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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