The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 8
She made the youth rise, embraced him, and said, ‘Know, my son, that it is I who sent the nun to your mother and caused you to be born, and with you the horse, with whose help you will be able to free the world from the monster.
Who acts: Abbess, rise, I, you, world · What happens: make, embrace, say, know, be, send · To what, where: youth rise, son, I, nun, mother, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abbess, rise, I, you), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rise | det |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rise | compound |
| 5 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 embraced | punct |
| 7 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 embraced | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Know | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Know | punct |
| 14 | Know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 son | punct |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Know | vocative |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sent | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 sent | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 I | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 I | cop |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 sent | nsubj |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 sent | nsubj |
| 24 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Know | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 nun | det |
| 26 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sent | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 mother | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 mother | nmod:poss |
| 29 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sent | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 caused | cc |
| 31 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sent | conj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 caused | iobj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 born | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 born | aux:pass |
| 35 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 caused | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 horse | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 horse | cc |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 you | case |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 horse | nmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 horse | det |
| 41 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 able | punct |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 help | case |
| 44 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 45 help | nmod:poss |
| 45 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 able | obl |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 49 able | nsubj |
| 47 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 able | aux |
| 48 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 49 able | cop |
| 49 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | parataxis |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 free | mark |
| 51 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 able | conj |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 world | det |
| 53 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 free | nsubj |
| 54 | from | from | ADP | _ | 56 monster | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 monster | det |
| 56 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 world | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Abbess | the youth rise | the horse with you obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rise=Product | |||
| 2 | embrace | past | Abbess not said here | son | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | know | infinitive | my son vocative | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | rise | I | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | send | past | I | the nun | your mother | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nun=Theme to mother=Destination | |||
| 7 | cause | past | I not said here | you | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition you=Patient | ||||
| 8 | bear | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 9 | is | future | you | with help; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | be | the world from the monster | tree rules |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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