The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 83
Another magician who lives in this land always eats my children up.
Who acts: magician · What happens: live, eat up · To what, where: land, children
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 magician | det |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eats | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 magician | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | obl |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 eats | advmod |
| 9 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 children | nmod:poss |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eats | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 eats | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 eats | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | another magician | this land | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | ||||
| 2 | eat up | present | another magician | my children | always property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
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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