The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 32
Besides,’ said Olof, ‘she has looked out a match for you; she has a brother in the Underworld, a three-headed Giant, whom she means to turn into a beautiful prince and get him married to you.
Who acts: Olof, Hermod · What happens: say, look out, have, mean, turn, get · To what, where: match, brother, Underworld, Hermod, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Olof, Hermod), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Olof | Olof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | aux |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 looked | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 match | det |
| 13 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 has | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 has | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 brother | det |
| 20 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 has | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Underworld | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Underworld | det |
| 23 | Underworld | Underworld | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 brother | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Giant | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Giant | det |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 headed | nummod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 three | punct |
| 28 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Giant | amod |
| 29 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Underworld | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 means | punct |
| 31 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 means | obj |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 means | nsubj |
| 33 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 brother | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 turn | mark |
| 35 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 means | xcomp |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 prince | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 prince | det |
| 38 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 prince | amod |
| 39 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 turn | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 get | cc |
| 41 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 turn | conj |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 get | obj |
| 43 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 get | xcomp |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 you | case |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 married | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Olof | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look out | present · perfect | Olof | a match | for you | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for you=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | present | Olof | a brother | the Underworld | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | |||
| 4 | mean | present | Olof | a brother | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | turn not said to happen | to-infinitive | Olof not said here | into a beautiful prince result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into prince=Result | ||||
| 6 | get | infinitive | Olof not said here | Hermod | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | marry | participle | Hermod not said here | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Patient |
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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