The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 22
Now the giant whom the invisible had so rashly attacked was the Lord of the Sea, and the third son of the Queen of the Elements, and he had touched the youth with a magic ring which enabled a mortal to live under water.
Who acts: invisible, Prince, magic ring, mortal · What happens: have, attack, be, touch, enable, live · To what, where: Lord, youth, mortal, water
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 (invisible, Prince, magic ring, mortal), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 giant | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 had | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 invisible | det |
| 6 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 giant | parataxis |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 attacked | advmod |
| 9 | rashly | rashly | ADV | _ | 10 attacked | advmod |
| 10 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 had | xcomp |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Lord | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lord | det |
| 13 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 attacked | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Sea | det |
| 16 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Lord | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 son | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 son | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 son | det |
| 20 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 son | amod |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 giant | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Queen | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Queen | det |
| 24 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 son | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Elements | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Elements | det |
| 27 | Elements | Element | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 Queen | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 touched | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 touched | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 touched | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 touched | aux |
| 32 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 son | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 youth | det |
| 34 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 touched | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 ring | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 ring | det |
| 37 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 ring | amod |
| 38 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 touched | obl |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 enabled | nsubj |
| 40 | enabled | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 ring | acl:relcl |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 mortal | det |
| 42 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 enabled | obj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 live | mark |
| 44 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 enabled | xcomp |
| 45 | under | under | ADP | _ | 46 water | case |
| 46 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 live | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 giant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the invisible | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | attack | participle | the invisible not said here | rashly property | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the Lord | of the Sea | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | touch | past · perfect | Prince | the youth | with a magic ring | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent youth=Experiencer with ring=Instrument | |||
| 5 | enable | past | a magic ring | a mortal | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | live | to-infinitive | a mortal not said here | water | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under water=Location |
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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