The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 68
‘My father,’ she replied, ‘I owe my life to this youth, who saved me from a terrible death.’
Who acts: father, I, youth · What happens: reply, owe, save · To what, where: life, youth, me, terrible death
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, I, youth), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 owe | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 owe | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 owe | nsubj |
| 11 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | advcl |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 life | nmod:poss |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 owe | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 youth | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 youth | det |
| 16 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 owe | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saved | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 saved | nsubj |
| 19 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 youth | acl:relcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 saved | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 death | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 death | det |
| 23 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 death | amod |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saved | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | My father | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | owe | present | I | my life | to this youth goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent life=Theme to youth=Goal | |||
| 3 | save | past | this youth | me | a terrible death | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from death=Source |
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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