The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 30
The Fairy, foreseeing this, put everyone in the world under a spell, which prevents their obeying the Sun’s command to take your life.
Who acts: Fairy, spell, wolves · What happens: foresee, put, prevent, obey, take, command · To what, where: this, everyone, world, obeying command, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, spell, wolves), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 foreseeing | punct |
| 4 | foreseeing | foresee | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Fairy | acl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 foreseeing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 put | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 spell | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 spell | det |
| 14 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 prevents | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 prevents | nsubj |
| 17 | prevents | prevent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 spell | acl:relcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 command | nmod:poss |
| 19 | obeying | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 command | amod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Sun | det |
| 21 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 command | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Sun | case |
| 23 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prevents | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 take | mark |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 prevents | advcl |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 life | nmod:poss |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foresee | gerund | the Fairy not said here | this | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the Fairy | everyone | the world | under a spell | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme in world=Destination | ||
| 3 | prevent | present | a spell | wolves's obeying command | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer command=Theme | ||||
| 4 | obey | gerund | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | a spell not said here | your life | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 6 | command | wolves = wolf | nom command «communication transitive»: 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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