The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 55
He had dreamt that the Princess was being carried off from him, and, transforming himself into an eagle, he flew to the palace.
Who acts: King · What happens: dreamt, carry off, transform, fly · To what, where: Princess, King
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 (King), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dreamt | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dreamt | aux |
| 3 | dreamt | dreamt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 carried | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 carried | aux:pass |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 carried | aux:pass |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dreamt | advcl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 carried | compound:prt |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flew | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 transforming | punct |
| 16 | transforming | transform | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 flew | ccomp |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 transforming | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 eagle | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 eagle | det |
| 20 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 transforming | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 transforming | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 flew | nsubj |
| 23 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dreamt | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flew | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dreamt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dreamt | past · perfect | King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | carry off | past · passive | the Princess | from King | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | transform | gerund | King not said here | King | into a eagle result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into eagle=Result | |||
| 4 | fly | past | King | to the palace | 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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