The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 4
‘I am not really a black crow, but an enchanted Prince, who has been doomed to spend his youth in misery.
Who acts: I · What happens: not be, enchant, doom, spend · To what, where: black crow, enchanted Prince, youth, misery
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), 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 | _ | 8 crow | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 crow | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 crow | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 crow | advmod |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 crow | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crow | det |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crow | amod |
| 8 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 doomed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 doomed | cc |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 12 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Prince | amod |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 doomed | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 doomed | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 doomed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 doomed | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 doomed | aux:pass |
| 18 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 crow | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 spend | mark |
| 20 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 doomed | xcomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 youth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spend | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 misery | case |
| 24 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spend | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 crow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | I | a black crow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | doom | present · perfect · passive | a enchanted Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | spend | to-infinitive | Prince's youth | misery | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Asset |
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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