The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 21

And so two years passed away, when one day the crow came to the Princess and said: ‘In another year I shall be freed from the spell I am under at present, because then the seven years will be over.

Who acts: crow, I, seven years · What happens: pass away, come, say, free, be · To what, where: I, spell, present · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crow, I, seven years), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 passed	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	5 passed	advmod
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 passed	obl:unmarked
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 passed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 day	nummod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl:unmarked
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 crow	det
12	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Princess	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 freed	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 freed	punct
21	In	in	ADP	_	23 year	case
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 year	det
23	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 freed	obl
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 freed	nsubj:pass
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 freed	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 freed	aux:pass
27	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 said	ccomp
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 spell	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 spell	det
30	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 freed	obl
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 present	nsubj
32	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 present	cop
33	under	under	ADP	_	35 present	case
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 present	case
35	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spell	acl:relcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 over	punct
37	because	because	SCONJ	_	44 over	mark
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 over	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 years	det
40	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 years	nummod
41	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 over	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 over	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 over	cop
44	over	over	ADV	_	27 freed	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass away	participle				year	away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	come	past	the crow			day	to the Princess	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to princess=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	the crow not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	free	shall · passive		I	the spell	year		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
5	is	present	I	the spell not said here	present			tree rules
6	is	future	the seven years			then	over property	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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