The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 66

‘My mistress,’ answered the lad--‘the Princess that was under the spell and is now free.’

Who acts: mistress, that · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: lad, spell

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 (mistress, that), 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	_	3 mistress	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mistress	nmod:poss
3	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mistress	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 mistress	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lad	det
8	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 Princess	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 Princess	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
12	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	parataxis
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 spell	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 spell	cop
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 spell	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spell	det
17	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Princess	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 free	cc
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 free	cop
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 free	advmod
21	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 spell	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 spell	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 Princess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	My mistress	the lad				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lad=Eventuality
2	is	past	that		the spell			tree rules
3	is	present	that not said here			now	free property	tree rules

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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