The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 34
‘An evil magician has not robbed you of your fruit, but he stole the seed from my mother, and thereby caused her death.
Who acts: magician, girl · What happens: not rob, steal, cause, die · To what, where: evil magician, seed, death
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, girl), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 robbed | punct |
| 2 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 magician | det |
| 3 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 magician | amod |
| 4 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 robbed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 robbed | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 robbed | advmod |
| 7 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 robbed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fruit | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fruit | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 robbed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stole | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 stole | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stole | nsubj |
| 15 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 robbed | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 seed | det |
| 17 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stole | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 mother | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stole | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 caused | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 caused | cc |
| 23 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 24 caused | advmod |
| 24 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stole | conj |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 death | nmod:poss |
| 26 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caused | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 robbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rob | present · perfect · passive | a evil magician | of your fruit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | steal | past | magician | the seed | from my mother | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent seed=Theme from mother=Source | |||
| 3 | cause | past | magician not said here | girl's death | thereby property | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient | |||
| 4 | die | girl | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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