The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 118

He might be the victim of some enchanter’s spell, and in his hand lay the counter-charm.

Who acts: man, enchanter · What happens: be, lie, spell · To what, where: victim, counter-charm, hand

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (man, enchanter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 victim	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 victim	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 victim	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 victim	det
5	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 spell	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 enchanter	det
8	enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spell	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 enchanter	case
10	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 victim	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lay	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lay	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hand	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod:poss
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	obl
16	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 victim	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 counter-charm	det
18	counter-charm	counter-charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 victim	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	might	man	the victim		of some enchanter's spell	tree rules
2	lie	past		the counter-charm	man's hand		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location counter-charm=Theme
3	spell		some enchanter				nom spell «state 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 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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