The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 36
She promptly shut it up in a cage, and, touching the Prince with her wand, transformed him into an exactly similar parrot; after which, she instructed him how to reach the Princess.
Who acts: Fairy, touching · What happens: shut up, touch, transform, instruct, reach · To what, where: hand, cage, Prince, parrot, Princess · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, touching), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shut | nsubj |
| 2 | promptly | promptly | ADV | _ | 3 shut | advmod |
| 3 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shut | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 shut | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 cage | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cage | det |
| 8 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shut | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 transformed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 transformed | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 touching | punct |
| 12 | touching | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 transformed | csubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Prince | det |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 touching | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 wand | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touching | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 transformed | punct |
| 19 | transformed | transform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shut | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 transformed | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 parrot | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 parrot | det |
| 23 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 24 similar | advmod |
| 24 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 parrot | amod |
| 25 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 transformed | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 instructed | punct |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 instructed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 instructed | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 instructed | nsubj |
| 31 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shut | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 instructed | obj |
| 33 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 reach | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 reach | mark |
| 35 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 instructed | ccomp |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Princess | det |
| 37 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 reach | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up | past | Fairy | hand | a cage | promptly property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||
| 2 | touch | gerund | the Prince | with Fairy's wand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent prince=Experiencer with wand=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | transform | past | touching | parrot | into a similar parrot result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into parrot=Result | |||
| 4 | instruct speech: other | past | Fairy | parrot | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | reach | to-infinitive | the Princess | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |
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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