The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 35

‘Tell me, then,’ said the Irishman, ‘what is the spell that has been laid on you, and how you can be freed from it.’

Who acts: Irishman · What happens: tell, say, be, lay, free · To what, where: me, spell, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irishman), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Tell	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Irishman	det
10	Irishman	Irishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spell	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 spell	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 spell	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 spell	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 spell	det
16	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Irishman	appos
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 laid	nsubj:pass
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 laid	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 laid	aux:pass
20	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 spell	acl:relcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 laid	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 freed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 freed	cc
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 freed	advmod
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 freed	nsubj:pass
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 freed	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 freed	aux:pass
29	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	conj
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 freed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive			me		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the Irishman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	present	the Irishman	the spell					tree rules
4	lay	present · perfect · passive		the spell				on you	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on you=Destination
5	free	can · passive		you		spell			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=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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