The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 63

His despair at being so late bewildered him so entirely that he appeared in his natural form and attempted to sprinkle some black liquid over the bride and bridegroom, which was intended to kill them, but the Fairy stretched out her wand and the liquid dropped on the Magician himself.

Who acts: despair, King, Fairy · What happens: be, bewilder, appear, attempt, sprinkle, intend · To what, where: King, natural form, black liquid, bride, wand, liquid

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 (despair, King, Fairy), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 despair	nmod:poss
2	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bewildered	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 so	case
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 so	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 bewildered	obl
6	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 bewildered	advmod
7	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bewildered	obj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 entirely	advmod
10	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	7 bewildered	advmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 appeared	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 appeared	nsubj
13	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bewildered	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 form	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 form	nmod:poss
16	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 form	amod
17	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 appeared	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 attempted	cc
19	attempted	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 appeared	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sprinkle	mark
21	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 attempted	xcomp
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 liquid	det
23	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 liquid	amod
24	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sprinkle	obj
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 bride	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bride	det
27	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sprinkle	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bridegroom	cc
29	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bride	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 intended	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 intended	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 intended	aux:pass
33	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 bride	acl:relcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 kill	mark
35	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 intended	xcomp
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 kill	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 stretched	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 stretched	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Fairy	det
40	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 stretched	nsubj
41	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bewildered	parataxis
42	out	out	ADP	_	41 stretched	compound:prt
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 wand	nmod:poss
44	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stretched	obj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 himself	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 liquid	det
47	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 himself	nsubj
48	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 liquid	acl
49	on	on	ADP	_	51 Magician	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Magician	det
51	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 dropped	obl
52	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 stretched	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bewildered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund				so property	tree rules
2	bewilder	past	King's despair	King		entirely, late property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	appear	past	King		King's natural form		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location
4	attempt	past	King not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	sprinkle not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here	some black liquid		over the bride and bridegroom	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent liquid=Theme over bride=Destination
6	intend	past · passive		the bride and bridegroom			tree rules
7	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive		bride			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	stretch out	past	the Fairy	Fairy's wand			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wand=Patient
9	drop	participle		the liquid not said here	the Magician		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on magician=Trajectory
10	despair		King				nom despair «state intransitive»: poss=agent
11	form		King				nom form «communication 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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