The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 43
But the door opened and in came a handsome young man, who said, ‘I am a king’s son, and was condemned by a wicked witch to live as an old man in this wood with no company but that of my three servants, who were transformed into a cock, a hen, and a brindled cow.
Who acts: door, handsome young man, I, wicked witch · What happens: open, come, say, be, condemn, live · To what, where: brindled cow, son, wood, three servants · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (door, handsome young man, I, wicked witch), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 opened | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 came | case |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 9 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 man | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 son | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 son | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 son | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 son | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 king | case |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 condemned | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 condemned | cc |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 condemned | aux:pass |
| 26 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 opened | conj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 witch | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 witch | det |
| 29 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 witch | amod |
| 30 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 condemned | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 live | mark |
| 32 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 condemned | advcl |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 man | case |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 man | det |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 man | amod |
| 36 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 live | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 wood | case |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 wood | det |
| 39 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 live | obl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 company | case |
| 41 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 42 company | det |
| 42 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 wood | nmod |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 that | cc |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 wood | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 servants | case |
| 46 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 servants | nmod:poss |
| 47 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 servants | nummod |
| 48 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 that | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 transformed | punct |
| 50 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 transformed | nsubj |
| 51 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 transformed | aux:pass |
| 52 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 servants | acl:relcl |
| 53 | into | into | ADP | _ | 55 cock | case |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 cock | det |
| 55 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 transformed | obl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 hen | punct |
| 57 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 58 hen | det |
| 58 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 cock | appos |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 cow | punct |
| 60 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 cow | cc |
| 61 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 63 cow | det |
| 62 | brindled | brindled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 63 cow | amod |
| 63 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obl |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the door | a brindled cow | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a handsome young man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a handsome young man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | I | a king's son | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | condemn | past · passive | a wicked witch | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | live | to-infinitive | a wicked witch not said here | this wood with no company | as a old man | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | |||
| 7 | transform | past · passive | my three servants | into a cock result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into cock=Result |
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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