The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 3
With these words he loosened the lion from his beard and bade the beast guard the youth carefully.
Who acts: Most, beast · What happens: loosen, guard · To what, where: lion, beard, youth
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Most, beast), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 loosened | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 loosened | nsubj |
| 5 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lion | det |
| 7 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loosened | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 beard | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 beard | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loosened | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bade | cc |
| 12 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beard | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beast | det |
| 14 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 guard | nsubj |
| 15 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 loosened | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 youth | det |
| 17 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 guard | obj |
| 18 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 15 guard | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 loosened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loosen | past | Most | the lion | Most's beard and bade | with this words | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lion=Patient with word=Instrument | ||
| 2 | guard | infinitive | the beast | the youth | carefully property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Beneficiary |
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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