The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 37
Iwanich, who had been prepared to meet a terrible magician and not a lovely girl, fell desperately in love with her.
Who acts: Iwanich · What happens: prepare, meet, fall · To what, where: Iwanich, terrible magician, love
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 (Iwanich), 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 | Iwanich | Iwanich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 prepared | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prepared | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 prepared | aux:pass |
| 6 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Iwanich | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 meet | mark |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 prepared | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 magician | det |
| 10 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 magician | amod |
| 11 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meet | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 girl | cc |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 girl | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 15 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 girl | amod |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 magician | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Iwanich | punct |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | desperately | desperately | ADV | _ | 18 fell | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 love | case |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fell | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | Iwanich | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | meet not said to happen | to-infinitive | a terrible magician and a lovely girl | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | Iwanich | love | with girl; desperately property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
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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