The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 12
She carries off the lovers who have been cast away by their mistresses, and wish to have done with life.
Who acts: turn, mistresses · What happens: carry off, cast away, wish, do · To what, where: lovers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (turn, mistresses), 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 carries | nsubj |
| 2 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 carries | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lovers | det |
| 5 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carries | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 cast | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cast | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 cast | aux:pass |
| 9 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lovers | acl:relcl |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 cast | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 mistresses | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mistresses | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mistresses | mistress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cast | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wish | cc |
| 16 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 2 carries | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 done | mark |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 done | aux |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 wish | ccomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 life | case |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 done | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | present | turn | the lovers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cast away | present · perfect · passive | lovers's mistresses | the lovers | away property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | |||
| 3 | wish | present | turn not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive · perfect | with life | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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