The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 30
Hermod has disappeared through the wicked devices of the Queen, for she is a witch, and so is her daughter, though they have put on these beautiful forms.
Who acts: Hermod, Olof, witch · What happens: disappear, be, put · To what, where: wicked devices, daughter, beautiful forms
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hermod, Olof, witch), 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 | Hermod | Hermod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 disappeared | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 disappeared | aux |
| 3 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 devices | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 devices | det |
| 6 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 devices | amod |
| 7 | devices | device | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 disappeared | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Queen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 devices | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 witch | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 witch | case |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 witch | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 witch | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 witch | det |
| 16 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 disappeared | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 daughter | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 daughter | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 daughter | advmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 daughter | cop |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 witch | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 put | punct |
| 24 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 27 put | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 put | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 put | aux |
| 27 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 disappeared | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 forms | case |
| 29 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 forms | det |
| 30 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 forms | amod |
| 31 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 put | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | present · perfect | Hermod | the wicked devices of the Queen | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Olof | for a witch and Olof's daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Olof not said here | Olof's daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | put | present · perfect | witch | this beautiful forms | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on form=Destination |
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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