The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 89
I said secretly, because the Fairy had warned the Queen that the King was a magician; and as from time immemorial there had been a standing feud between the Fairies and the Wizards, he might not have approved of his wife’s visit.
Who acts: I, King, Fairies, wife · What happens: say, warn, be, stand, not approve, visit · To what, where: Fairy, Queen, magician, standing feud, King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, King, Fairies, wife), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 2 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 warned | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 warned | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fairy | det |
| 7 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 warned | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 warned | aux |
| 9 | warned | warn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 said | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queen | det |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 warned | obj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 magician | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 magician | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 magician | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 magician | det |
| 17 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 warned | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 feud | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 feud | cc |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 feud | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 immemorial | case |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 immemorial | compound |
| 23 | immemorial | immemorial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 as | obl |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 as | conj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 feud | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 feud | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 feud | det |
| 28 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 feud | amod |
| 29 | feud | feud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 30 | between | between | ADP | _ | 32 Fairies | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Fairies | det |
| 32 | Fairies | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 feud | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Wizards | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Wizards | det |
| 35 | Wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Fairies | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 approved | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 approved | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 approved | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 approved | advmod |
| 40 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 approved | aux |
| 41 | approved | approve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 Fairies | acl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 visit | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 wife | nmod:poss |
| 44 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 visit | nmod:poss |
| 45 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 44 wife | case |
| 46 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 approved | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | secretly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | past · perfect · passive | the Fairy | the Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the King | a magician | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | past · perfect | a standing feud | between the Fairies and the Wizards | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not approve | might · perfect · passive | the Fairies and the Wizards not said here | King | of Fairy's wife's visit | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||
| 7 | visit | Fairy's wife | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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