The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 41

He was carried home in a dying condition, and as he lay on his death-bed the black woman appeared and said: ‘So the Sun has, after all, found someone, who was not under the Fairy’s spell, who has caused your death.

Who acts: Prince, black woman, Sun, spell, your · What happens: carry, die, lie, appear, say, have · To what, where: Prince, dying condition, death bed, someone, spell, death · 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 (Prince, black woman, Sun, spell), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	aux:pass
3	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 carried	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 condition	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 condition	det
7	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 condition	amod
8	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 appeared	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 appeared	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 lay	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 appeared	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 bed	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 bed	nmod:poss
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bed	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 death	punct
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 appeared	nsubj
22	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 appeared	conj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 has	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 has	punct
27	So	so	ADV	_	30 has	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Sun	det
29	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 has	nsubj
30	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 said	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 found	punct
32	after	after	ADP	_	33 all	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 found	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 all	punct
35	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 has	conj
36	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	35 found	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 spell	punct
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 spell	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 spell	cop
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 spell	advmod
41	under	under	ADP	_	45 spell	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Fairy	det
43	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 spell	nmod:poss
44	’s	's	PART	_	43 Fairy	case
45	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 someone	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 caused	punct
47	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 caused	nsubj
48	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 caused	aux
49	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 spell	acl:relcl
50	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 death	nmod:poss
51	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 caused	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · passive		Prince	a dying condition		home property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in condition=Location
2	die	gerund						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	lie	past	Prince		Prince's death bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location
4	appear	past	the black woman					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	the black woman not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	present	the Sun					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	find	past	the Sun not said here	someone		after all		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Topic
8	not is	past			the Fairy's spell			tree rules
9	cause	present · perfect	the Fairy's spell	your death				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient
10	die		your					nom death «event intransitive»: 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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