The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 36
Still, though the chief and the young girl quailed in terror at these horrible sights and sounds, no harm came to them, for their lives had been free from evil, and the Master of Life had said that no evil should happen unto them.
Who acts: harm, lives, evil · What happens: quail, come, be, say, happen · To what, where: young girl, terror, sounds, evil, Master · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harm, lives, evil), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | though | though | ADP | _ | 5 chief | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chief | det |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 girl | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 girl | amod |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chief | conj |
| 10 | quailed | quail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 girl | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 terror | case |
| 12 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quailed | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 sights | case |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 sights | det |
| 15 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sights | amod |
| 16 | sights | sight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 quailed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sounds | cc |
| 18 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sights | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chief | punct |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 harm | det |
| 21 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 free | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 free | mark |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 lives | nmod:poss |
| 28 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 free | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 free | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 free | cop |
| 31 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 came | conj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 evil | case |
| 33 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 free | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 said | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 said | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Master | det |
| 37 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 said | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Life | case |
| 39 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Master | nmod |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 said | aux |
| 41 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 came | parataxis |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 happen | mark |
| 43 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 44 evil | det |
| 44 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 happen | nsubj |
| 45 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 happen | aux |
| 46 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 said | ccomp |
| 47 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 48 them | case |
| 48 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 happen | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quail | participle | the young girl not said here | terror | at this horrible sights and sounds | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at sight=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | past | no harm | sounds = sound | still | though the chief and the young girl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | sounds's lives | evil | free property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the Master of Life | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | happen | should | no evil | unto sounds = sound | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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