The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 86
As, since he had been touched by the Giant’s ring, he had the power to live in the water as well as on land, he at once dived into the fountain.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: touch, have, live, dive · To what, where: Prince, power, water, fountain
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 (Prince), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 7 touched | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 As | punct |
| 3 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 7 touched | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 touched | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 touched | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 touched | aux:pass |
| 7 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 ring | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ring | det |
| 10 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ring | amod |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Giant | case |
| 12 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 touched | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 touched | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 power | det |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 live | mark |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 power | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 live | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 27 land | cc |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 as | fixed |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 as | fixed |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 land | case |
| 27 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 water | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 dived | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 dived | nsubj |
| 30 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 32 dived | mark |
| 31 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 32 dived | advmod |
| 32 | dived | dive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 had | conj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 fountain | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 fountain | det |
| 35 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dived | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · perfect · passive | Prince | by the Giant ring | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: subject=Experiencer by ring=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Prince | the power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | the power not said here | the water as land | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | |||
| 4 | dive | participle | Prince | the fountain | once property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into fountain=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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