The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 31
Because Hermod would not fall in with the Queen’s plans, and marry her daughter, she has laid a spell on him, to go on an island and be a lion by day and a man by night, and never be freed from this until you burn the lion’s skin.
Who acts: Queen, you · What happens: not fall in, marry, lay, go, be, not free · To what, where: daughter, spell, island, lion, this, skin
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 (Queen, you), 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 | Because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 2 Hermod | case |
| 2 | Hermod | Hermod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fall | obl |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fall | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fall | advmod |
| 5 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 fall | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 plans | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 plans | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Queen | case |
| 11 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fall | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 marry | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 marry | cc |
| 14 | marry | marry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 fall | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marry | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 laid | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 laid | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 laid | aux |
| 20 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fall | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 spell | det |
| 22 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 laid | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 laid | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 go | punct |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 go | mark |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 fall | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 island | case |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 island | det |
| 30 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 go | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 lion | cc |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 lion | cop |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 lion | det |
| 34 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 go | conj |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 day | case |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lion | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 man | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 man | det |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lion | conj |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 night | case |
| 41 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 go | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 freed | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 freed | cc |
| 44 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 46 freed | advmod |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 freed | aux:pass |
| 46 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fall | parataxis |
| 47 | from | from | ADP | _ | 48 this | case |
| 48 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 freed | obl |
| 49 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 51 burn | mark |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 51 burn | nsubj |
| 51 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 freed | advcl |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 lion | det |
| 53 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 skin | nmod:poss |
| 54 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 53 lion | case |
| 55 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 burn | obj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fall in | would | because Hermod; with the Queen's plans | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | marry | infinitive | Queen's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||||
| 3 | lay | present · perfect | Queen | a spell | on Hermod | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spell=Theme on he=Destination | |||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | a island | night | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on island=Location | ||||
| 5 | is a | infinitive | a lion and a man | day | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not free | infinitive · passive | this | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING» | |||||
| 7 | burn | present | you | the lion's skin | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | ||||
| 8 | plan | the Queen | nom plan «cognition 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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