The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 26

‘I am the Prince,’ he said, ‘who you in your goodness, when I was wandering about in the shape of a black crow, freed from the most awful torments.

Who acts: I, Prince · What happens: be, say, wonder, free · To what, where: Prince, shape, black crow, awful torments · 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 (I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 Prince	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 Prince	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Prince	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Prince	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 Prince	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 who	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 who	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 said	parataxis
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 who	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 goodness	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 goodness	nmod:poss
16	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 you	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wandering	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 wandering	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 wandering	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wandering	aux
21	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
22	about	about	ADV	_	21 wandering	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 shape	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 shape	det
25	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wandering	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 crow	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 crow	det
28	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 crow	amod
29	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shape	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 freed	punct
31	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 crow	acl
32	from	from	ADP	_	36 torments	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 torments	det
34	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	35 awful	advmod
35	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 torments	amod
36	torments	torment	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 freed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	the Prince			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	wonder speech: ask	past · progressive	I		the shape of a black crow	about property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	free	participle		a black crow not said here	the awful torments		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer

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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