The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 49

When the magician found himself face to face with Iwanich, without hope of escape, he turned to him with false friendliness and said: ‘Thrice my kind benefactor!’

Who acts: magician, Iwanich, escape · What happens: find, turn, say, hope · To what, where: magician · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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, Iwanich, escape), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 found	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magician	det
3	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 turned	advcl
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 found	obj
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 face	case
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 face	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 Iwanich	case
10	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 face	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hope	punct
12	without	without	ADP	_	13 hope	case
13	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 escape	case
15	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hope	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 turned	nsubj
18	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 turned	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 friendliness	case
22	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 friendliness	amod
23	friendliness	friendliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turned	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 turned	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 Thrice	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 Thrice	punct
28	Thrice	thrice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 said	ccomp
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 benefactor	nmod:poss
30	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 benefactor	amod
31	benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Thrice	nsubj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 Thrice	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 Thrice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	the magician	magician		without hope of escape	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme face=Attribute
2	turn	past	Iwanich		magician	with false friendliness	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	Iwanich not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	hope		escape				nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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