The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 44
The spell could only be broken by the arrival of a maiden who should show herself kind not only to men but to beasts.
Who acts: arrival, maiden · What happens: break, show, arrive · To what, where: spell, maiden
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 (arrival, maiden), 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 spell | det |
| 2 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 broken | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 broken | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 broken | aux:pass |
| 6 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 arrival | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 arrival | det |
| 9 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broken | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 maiden | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 maiden | det |
| 12 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrival | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 show | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 show | aux |
| 15 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 show | obj |
| 17 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 men | advmod |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 men | advmod |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 men | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 men | case |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 show | obj |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 beasts | cc |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 beasts | case |
| 24 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 men | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | could · passive | the arrival of a maiden | the spell | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | show | should | a maiden | maiden | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient man=Topic | ||||
| 3 | arrive | a maiden | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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